shepard-documents

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
25-5650 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa…
25-5654 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment Because harmless-error review of Erlinger error typically requires appellate judges to evaluate facts outside the record of conviction for the charged…
24-6306 Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent In light of Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct 1840 (2024), was Petitioner Calixte properly sentenced as an armed career criminal where the district …
23-7841 Richard Schorovsky v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-01 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents 1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi…
21-7657 Kirk L. Floyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony The Georgia burglary statute disjunctively lists locations that may be burgled. The text makes plain that the list is not exclusive, Georgia's case la…
21-6234 Edward Stain v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation 1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle…
20-7163 Gabriel Z. Kershaw v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach charging-document controlled-substance-offense generic-judgment-records shepard-documents u.s.s.g.-§4b1.1 Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a …
20-7126 Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a …
19-5085 Darren L. Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "violent felony" element of physical force, and one of which does not,…
19-5089 Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents I Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "crime of violence" element of physical force, and one of which does…
18-6256 William Wise Mock v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig…