Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether separate convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) require separate predicate crimes and separate acts of using, carrying, or possessing a firearm
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), “any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm” commits an offense. The question presented is whether each separate conviction under Section 924(c)(1) requires only a separate predicate crime of violence or drug trafficking offense, as the Third, Fourth, and Eighth Circuits have held, or also requires a separate act of using, carrying, or possessing a firearm, as the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits have held. (i)
2020-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-23
Reply of petitioner Zavian Munize Jordan filed. (Distributed)
2020-12-03
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2020-10-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 3, 2020.
2020-10-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 2, 2020 to December 3, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-10-01
Brief amicus curiae of FAMM filed.
2020-10-01
Brief amici curiae of Howard University School of Law Human and Civil Rights Clinic; National Association for Public Defense filed.
2020-09-28
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 2, 2020.
2020-09-25
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 1, 2020 to November 2, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-08-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 1, 2020)