generic-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 22-6578 | Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-6432 | Edward Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states | Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 … |
| 22-5892 | Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements | When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir… |
| 21-7907 | Christopher Jo Stringer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition categorical-approach generic-offense state-law-interpretation taylor-standard taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-shepard | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7586 | Jaako Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime | Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-7451 | Michael Shawn Bell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7333 | Andrew Michael Penny v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7079 | Reginald Glenn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-6951 | Jacob Allen Adair v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps | Whether —in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit —the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offe… |
| 20-7242 | Xavier Lister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-definition taylor-v-united-states | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 20-6979 | Eddie Charles Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense intent-element shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | 1. When applying the categorical approach, federal courts are "bound by" a state supreme court's "interpretation of state law, including its determina… |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 19-5732 | Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation | To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of t… |
| 18-9425 | Kevin Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states | I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense? II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-7966 | Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute | Whether the ACCA's definition-of a "serious drug offense" imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of "delivery a… |
| 18-6567 | Luis Delprado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition criminal-history-enhancement generic-offense herrold-v-united-states quarles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review united-states-v-stitt | I. Whether the following cases pending before this Court create a reasonable probability of a different result in the instant case insofar as the addr… |