section-924(c)

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A469 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-24 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) Question not identified.
25A383 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete categorical-approach circuit-conflict crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instruction section-924(c) Question not identified.
25A299 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24-5141 Marcus Jay Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap…
23A1138 Mark Jordan v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied criminal-statute divisibility force-clause mens-rea section-924(c) sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
23-7075 Breon D. Hicks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY INSTRUCTED THE JURY CONCERNING THE SECTION 924(c) CHARGES? II. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED A KNOWING…
23A504 Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-04 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Question not identified.
22-6968 Thomas Marmolejos v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio…
22-5451 John That Luong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied IFP and remand for further proceedings in light of Ta vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment 18-usc-924c constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-2255 section-924(c) section-924c taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor writ-of-certiorari Whether the Court should grant Luong's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the Ninth Circuit's judgment, and remand for further proceedings in l…
21-1208 Eric Andrews v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6560 Carlo Donato v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor…
21-5906 Michael Jerome Pettway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal rule-11 section-924(c) sixth-amendment QUESTION NUMBER ONE: Whether Petitioner Pettway's ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to.Rule 11 (b) …
21-5822 Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3).
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability where the Section 924(c) conviction was charged as to two d…