predicate-conviction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1001 | United States v. Briani L. Doucet | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Pending | constitutional-challenge drug-offense felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-5415 | Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 23-6942 | Paulino Granda v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi… |
| 23-198 | Jamar M. Lewis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law | 1. Under this Court's decision in McNeill, is the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines defined at the time of the predicate convic… |
| 21-6192 | Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson | Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his "three strikes" mandatory life sentence, pursuant to United States v. John… |
| 20-7305 | Larry Daniel Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation | 1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… |
| 20-5643 | Louis Gene Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law | 1. A state crime is a "violent felony" (and therefore a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act) if it "has as an element the u… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 18-7797 | Coree Patrick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation | TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-6993 | Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6096 | Michael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-5056 | Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… |