ACCA-enhancement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6474 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense Does the Supreme Court ruling in Erlinger v. United States render unconstitutional ACCA enhancements when predicate charges were not proven beyond a r…
21-7928 Timothy Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion Did the district court have jurisdiction to consider Mr. Lindsey's authorized motion?
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether Mr. Willingham waived his argument that the district court had jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of his § 2255(h) motion
19-8489 Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a juvenile conviction for possession of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement?
19-5391 Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a criminal defendant can satisfy burden of proof for 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a fed…
19-5217 Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-17 GVR IFP ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar Whether due process is violated when a court sentences a defendant to a term of imprisonment that exceeds the otherwise-applicable statutory maximum s…
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the residual clause provided the basis for his …
18-5158 Mario Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability descamps-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment florida-robbery-statute sixth-amendment stokeling-v-united-states Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner a Certificate of Appealability