state-criminal-law
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7839 | Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime | Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co… |
| 23A1091 | Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law | Whether federal authorities can ignore a State classification of its own law when determining whether a conviction constitutes an aggravated felony un… | |
| 23-7023 | Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions | 1. Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitu… |
| 22-5159 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 21-5119 | Billy Wolfe v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction | Arkansas | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cherokee-nation criminal-jurisdiction extradition extradition-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law state-criminal-law state-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights | 1) Whether the provisions of treaties between the Cherokee Nation and the United States reserve jurisdiction for crimes committed by a Cherokee Natio… |
| 18-8858 | Aspen Warren v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-7032 | Reginald L. Lomax v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-6768 | Michael Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | 1. Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qual… |
| 18-5386 | Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error | Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … |