No. 21-5610

Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence
Key Terms:
CriminalProcedure Privacy
Latest Conference: 2021-10-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51 is a crime of violence

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence. 2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor. 3. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession. 4. Whether the failure to give the voluntariness instruction of 18 U.S.C. § 3501 is reversible error. i

Docket Entries

2021-10-12
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
2021-09-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-09-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 12, 2021)

Attorneys

United States
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Willie Hardy
Alan Hideto YamamotoLaw Offices of Alan H. Yamamoto, Petitioner