No. 24-6326

Mark Allen Hayden v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-01-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
SecondAmendment
Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Floyd v. State demonstrates that Petitioner's prior statute of conviction cannot be divided for the purposes of the categorical approach, and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the decision below -demonstrates that Petitioner’s prior statute of conviction cannot be divided for the purposes of the categorical approach, and hence demonstrates a reasonable probability of relief if the court below were given a chance to reconsider in light of that intervening authority? Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment, and whether this Court should hold the instant Petitition pending resolution of the circuit split presented by Range v. Garland, __ F.4th__, 2024 WL 5199447 (8rd Cir. Dec. 23, 2024)(en banc), and United States v. Jackson, 110 F.4th 1120 (8th Cir. 2024)? i

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-12
Supplemental Brief of Mark Hayden submitted.
2025-02-12
Supplemental brief of petitioner Mark Hayden filed. (Distributed)
2025-01-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2025-01-23
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-01-23
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-01-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 18, 2025)

Attorneys

Mark Hayden
Kevin Joel Page — Petitioner
Kevin Joel Page — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent