No. 21-5984

Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-10-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force
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Latest Conference: 2021-11-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of the Armed Career Criminal Act?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of the Armed Career Criminal Act? (2) Whether a statute that criminalizes a failure to act that causes injury satisfies the violent force requirement of the Armed Career Criminal Act?! 1 A petition for writ of certiorari is currently pending on this question in Gerald Scott v. United States, 20-27778. . ii

Docket Entries

2021-11-15
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
2021-10-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-10-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 15, 2021)

Attorneys

United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Zacharia Clark
Heather Rae QuickFederal Public Defender Office for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, Petitioner