reckless-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6275 Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct 1. Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute, O.C.G.A. 16-5-60(b), provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and sufficient guidance to prevent arbi…
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
22-5534 Glenn A. Chin v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 1. Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a…
21-7311 Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel Fifth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 1. Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official, whose reckless conduct proximately injured another violate a plaintiff 's federally protected right '…
21-5046 Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 GVR IFP crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh…
20-8292 Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D…
20-7750 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-14 GVR IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act jury-instructions reckless reckless-conduct 1. Model jury instructions define Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, to include takings caused by fear of future economic harm to "intangible proper…
20-7749 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-14 GVR IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property reckless reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation 1. Model jury instructions define Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, to include takings caused by fear of future economic harm to "intangible proper…
20-7731 Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery 1. In Texas, a defendant commits simple robbery if, during the course of a theft, he recklessly causes someone else to suffer bodily injury or knowing…
20-6788 Brian Gene McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9…
20-6756 David Ray Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime 1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys…
20-6407 Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct I. Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use o…
20-6155 Jordan Sandoval v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness (1) Currently, the circuits are split in defining the role of appellate courts in conducting a meaningful substantive reasonableness review of a Defen…
20-5434 Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 GVR Relisted (2)IFP borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force Can reckless conduct constitute a "crime of violence" by satisfying the "use of force" clause in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual's definition of…
20-5172 Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a…
19-6025 Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5652 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-21 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines?
18-7432 Cornell W. Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated…