No. 19-7006

Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime
Key Terms:
CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2020-01-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predicate when it can be committed without physical force as understood under that Act?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Petitioner Alvin Drummond presents two questions for this Court’s review: 1. Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predicate when it can be committed without physical force as understood under that Act? 2. Whether a search can be conducted pursuant to a search warrant when an affidavit provides no probable cause to support that warrant?

Docket Entries

2020-01-27
Petition DENIED.
2020-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
2020-01-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-12-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 17, 2020)

Attorneys

Alvin Drummond
Joshua Snow KendrickKendrick & Leonard, P.C., Petitioner
Joshua Snow KendrickKendrick & Leonard, P.C., Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent