firearm-enhancement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6845 | Michael Henderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm-enhancement presentence-investigation-report safety-valve-relief sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether, under Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(D), a district court's order for additional briefing on safety valve eligibility – which notes t… |
| 25-6028 | Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-5986 | Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c… |
| 24-7123 | Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court clearly erred by applying the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement? II. Whether general application of the USSG § 2D1… |
| 24-5533 | Clint Monroe Utter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction base-offense-level carjacking firearm-enhancement robbery sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Utter's objection to the United States Probation Officer's 5 level enhancement to his base offense leve… |
| 24-5144 | Richard Villareal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 24A31 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7638 | Jesus Mendez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" capable of sustaining a conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 22-6329 | Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | In United States v. Jones, 574 U.S. 948 (2014), three justices urged the Court to grant certiorari to answer the question left open in Rita v. United … |
| 22-6063 | Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 22-5580 | Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 21-7526 | Adam C. Morris v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement interrogatory-issue jury-instructions material-fact material-facts right-to-jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure verdict-control | 1) DID THE COURT AVOID CONSIDER THE ARGUMENT THAT THE SEPARATE GROUND INTERROGATORY IS AN ISSUE OF MATERIAL FACT AND THAT THE JURY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE IN… |
| 21-7032 | Adrian Hunt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 21-6974 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing | Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr… |
| 21-6029 | Daronnie Thompkins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing | Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin… |
| 21-5001 | Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-07-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 20-7446 | Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) | In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi… |
| 20-7018 | Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C). II. Whether the district court erred by ap… |
| 20-6189 | Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss… |
| 18-9578 | James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness | Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 18-8885 | Jose Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED LINER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE "TOOLS OF THE TRADE" AND THAT ALWAYS IS FOR… |
| 18-8601 | Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge | This Court should grant certiorari because there is a split in the circuits as to the proper application of a 7 level guideline enhancement for the di… |
| 18-7393 | Rodrigo Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis | Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… |
| 18-6347 | Adam Brake v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 | Whether the district court erred when, based on impermissible double counting, it incorrectly applied a higher guideline range. In calculating Petitio… |