firearm-use
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6192 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 23-685 | Devaughn Dorsey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tamperi… |
| 22-7053 | Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense | Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 21-5336 | Theodore Howard v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Mr. Theodore Howard/ was denied his United States Constitutional fourteenth/ and Sixth amendment due-process rights/ to fair notice of the … |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 19-7732 | Jerad Hanks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-5183 | Miguel Grado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 18-7612 | Nathaniel Bowens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
| 18-7303 | Joel Rivera v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility | WHETHER ROSEMOND V. UNITED STATES, 134 S.Ct. 1240 (2014), WAS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AND APPLIED BY THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WHEN IT UPHELD M… |
| 18-6574 | Curtis D. Hall v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | 1. Whether (as the court of appeals held) the categorical approach does not apply in any case in which the defendant was also convicted of "use[ of] a… |