weapon-possession

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A153 Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete bruen drug-trafficking rahimi second-amendment supreme-court-precedent weapon-possession Question not identified.
24-6039 Charles Derryberry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 218 (1983) established the "totality of the circumstances analysis" for determining if an informant's tip provided suffici…
24A353 Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession Question not identified.
23-6074 Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we…
22-5196 Malik Holloway v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague?
20-7936 Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon …
19-5236 Seab Nolen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
18-9367 Michael F. Ramsey v. New York New York 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-punishment consecutive-sentences criminal-possession criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy firearm-law intent-of-legislature johnson-v-morgenthau judicial-precedent legislative-intent misapplied-decisions penal-law single-continuous-possession weapon-possession New York's highest court has distinguished criminal possession of a weapon with the intent to use element, Penal Law § 265.03, from other weapon posse…
18-8957 Scott Matthew Goss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession 1. May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting t…
18-7138 Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague?