serious-bodily-injury

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A201 Michael Donell Glover v. Texas Texas 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Question not identified.
23-7767 In Re Jogaak Jogaak 2024-06-20 Denied IFP bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)? Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se…
23-5735 Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview Third Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction (1) What ; "Definitive Actions Committed" , [Constitutes] the violent felony of the first degree ; ("Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury") -…
22-5217 Ramell Markus v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective Like other Sentencing Guidelines provisions involving violence, the Guidelines for kidnapping offenses (USSG §2A4.1) enhance a defendant's sentence wh…
21-8162 Darnell Pearson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government…
21-8020 Ronald Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury 1. Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because she failed to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse (rather than toxicology) to in…
20-8216 Justin Michael Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment 1. In Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999), this Court held that an "empty threat" of violence is not sufficient to demonstrate that a person …
20-7672 James Michael Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY…
20-6773 Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio…
20-6225 Michael David Lister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act…
19-7952 Michael Deon Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or…