firearms-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5998 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024) are structural errors, or whether they are subject to harmless or plain error revi… |
| 24-7379 | Andra G. Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation | Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 21-911 | Dan V. Sharp v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance | Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date. Whether the Court erred in requiring the Appellant to appear in shackles in front of … |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 20-7282 | Earl Malloy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7168 | Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 | I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous? II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-6148 | Smith Merinord v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-5757 | Jerrieus Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 19-7078 | Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i). |
| 19-6062 | Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets | (1) May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)? … |
| 19-5750 | Felix A. Okafor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5312 | Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime | Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 18-6041 | Robert Burse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) | Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A). |
| 18-5725 | Alfred Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure | Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |