Firearm-Possession
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6775 | Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights felony-conviction firearm-possession founding-era-interpretation second-amendment statutory-prohibition | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-6729 | Antwaun O. Heaggeans v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6663 | Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy | Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi… |
| 25A843 | Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-attempt firearm-possession hobbs-act substantial-step | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6650 | Michael Ledon Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-6652 | Jarmarl Thornton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6606 | Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6597 | Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6574 | Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-6523 | Dennis Martin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6418 | Joshua David Havins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant… |
| 25-6427 | Devin Joe Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25A731 | Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | 922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6368 | Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Luis Garza-Gomez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to po… |
| 25-6355 | Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-6329 | Tommie Slack v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent | Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu… |
| 25-6313 | Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-6285 | Rudy Altamirano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-6217 | Christopher Wuchter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25-6218 | Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 25-6189 | Javonte Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6122 | Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-scrutiny criminal-law due-process felons-rights firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6105 | Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State… |
| 25-6107 | Davon Amos Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6108 | Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25-6064 | Marcus Gerrod Stokes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A537 | Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vera Cooper, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substances dangerous-persons firearm-possession historical-tradition medical-marijuana second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing firearms violates the Second Amendment when applied to m… | |
| 25A504 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense | Whether a local government's categorical ban on firearm possession in public parks violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense | |
| 25-5976 | Henry Leon Marrow, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5952 | Theo M. Owens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5946 | Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5925 | Tracy Jenkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 25A456 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic… | |
| 25-5916 | Luis Espinal v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5909 | Stevie Gomez Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights felony-conviction firearm-possession founding-era-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-469 | Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits firearm possession by all unlawfully present noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth… |
| 25-458 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-convictions firearm-possession government-restriction second-amendment | Petitioner William Collins, III, is an upstanding and law-abiding citizen. His only criminal history stems from youthful indiscretion: minor, nonviole… |
| 25-5875 | Christopher Deonta Hemphill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-court-reasoning constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-possession rahimi-precedent second-amendment | 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the reasoning of the Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), in decidi… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether a federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances is facially or as-applied unconstitutional under… | |
| 25A395 | Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with non-violent felony convictions violates the Second Amendment under the hi… | |
| 25-5790 | Kyle Davey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25-5772 | Rudy Mario Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-372 | Erik Matthew Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Pending | Amici (2) | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-statute firearm-possession marijuana-use second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any… |
| 25-5748 | She Ler Yer Lee v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso… |
| 25-5746 | Kevin Dwayne Woods, Jr. v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-09-26 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights firearm-possession individual-dangerousness marijuana-possession second-amendment state-law | Whether, consistent with the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a state may criminalize possessing a firearm while possessing a user quantity … |
| 25-5731 | David Alexander Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-356 | Steven P. Mancuso v. New York | New York | 2025-09-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | The first question is whether New York's Penal Law § 265.03(3), § 265.02(1) and § 265.01-b(1), which prohibit the ownership of a firearm in the home o… |
| 25-5721 | Jacob Joshad Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Whether courts should analyze as-applied Second Amendment challenges to 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) by examining whether historical tradition supports perman… |
| 25-5722 | Isaiah Kahlil Wise v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge felon-disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5707 | Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-325 | Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-09-18 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent | 1. Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2), which provides that "a person may not possess a firearm if the person has been convicted … |
| 25-5667 | Antonio Deante Town v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5668 | Matthew Chambliss Coleman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5637 | Jeffrey Michel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-test constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | Pursuant to the Second Amendment analysis dictated by New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), and clarified by United S… |
| 25-5655 | Walter Lavelle Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5657 | Pierre Demetrius Redd v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5658 | Devontae Lamont Royal v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5624 | Nathaniel J. Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5626 | Andrew Chafin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two … |
| 25-5627 | Lennie Edward Coles, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5607 | Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-5614 | Franklin Jerome Coleman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5597 | Joseph Carroll Bush, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5599 | Raymond Lamont Seward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5601 | John Edward Mason, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5603 | Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A278 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Whether a prior felony conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act for purposes of imposing an enhanced sentence | |
| 25-5565 | Marcus Delars Branson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on… |
| 25-5550 | Jermaine Nelson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5514 | Joseph Lee Betancourt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 25-5518 | Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c… |
| 25A245 | Scot Van Oudenhoven v. Wisconsin Department of Justice | Wisconsin | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | domestic-violence expungement federal-statute firearm-possession misdemeanor-conviction restoration-of-rights | Whether a state court expungement that does not completely negate a prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction qualifies as an 'expungement' under… | |
| 25-5503 | Bobby Nathaniel Scott v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5477 | Cornell Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5481 | Isaac John Olivas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18… |
| 25-5482 | Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5433 | Jon Jesse Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5434 | Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Pending | Relisted (7)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5437 | Sequan Anthony Fowler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5438 | Tamonte Finney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5439 | Naim Greene v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5441 | Azontay Malik Perry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5443 | Donovan L. Crews v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5424 | Kiyel Tyquello Kearney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5415 | Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25-5417 | Shalik Rasheem Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5420 | Perry Jaquan Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-test constitutional-scrutiny felony-ban firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5382 | Meleke Osborne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Relisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a ny felony violates the Second Amendme… |
| 25-5358 | Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of … |
| 25-5338 | Avontae Guiden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | IFP | bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-justification probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25-5352 | Antonio Robledo Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Federal law bans the possession of fire arms by anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more th an one year of imprisonment. 18… |
| 25-5299 | Alfred Lamar Shavers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-prohibition firearm-possession second-amendment | WHETHER THE CRIME OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT WHERE THERE IS A BLANKET PRO… |
| 25-5301 | Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5302 | Cameron Edwards v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on his prior convictions violates the Second Amendment. 2. Wh… |
| 25-5259 | Antonio Marshall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5181 | Samuel Adam Sanchez-Tena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been indicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding o… |
| 25-5124 | Jacob Graves v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-5116 | Mark Ellis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt | I. DUE PROCESS REQUIRES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ALLOW A RATIONAL JURY TO FIND GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. WHERE THE EVIDENCE THAT A FIREARM WAS PO… |
| 25-5090 | Joseph Anthony Zinnerman, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-analysis firearm-possession historical-precedent probation-status second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an individual's probation or supervised release status categorically strips them of Second Amendment protection under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)… |
| 25A17 | Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s jurisdictional element for firearm possession violates the Commerce Clause when applied to a defendant whose firearm p… | |
| 25A21 | Deago Lee Eddings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition predicate-crime second-amendment supervised-release | Whether the Second Amendment precludes disarming individuals on supervised release or state parole under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on historical tra… | |
| 25-5009 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-5017 | Brant Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-conviction due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights because they were previously convicted of a non-violent crime. 2. Whe… |
| 25-5006 | Fredrick Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment | When a criminal defendant in the middle of a direct appeal seeks relief that first becomes available as a result of an intervening decision from this … |
| 25-5007 | Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-07-01 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal | Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah… |
| 24-7526 | Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on th… |
| 24A1294 | Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions, including non-violent offenses, violates the Se… | |
| 24-7480 | Otis Ray Whitehead, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis felon-prohibition firearm-possession historical-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a court may uphold the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(l) based solely on Heller's presumptively lawful language without conducting hi… |
| 24A1267 | Deamonte Law v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(1) bruen-test firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment supervised-release | Whether an individual on supervised release retains Second Amendment rights to possess a firearm under the historical tradition of firearm regulation … | |
| 24-7417 | Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross… |
| 24-7419 | Cardari Bradley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross… |
| 24-1234 | United States v. Ali Danial Hemani | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Granted | Amici (23)Relisted (3) | constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-users firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment as applied to the respondent |
| 24-7347 | Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on th… |
| 24-7348 | Spencer Wayne Bacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause conviction-restriction criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior convictions violates the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause |
| 24-7339 | Jonathan Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights based on a non-violent prior conviction and whether such prosecution viol… |
| 24-7342 | Jose Gomez Quiroz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment federal-firearms-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(n), which prohibits individuals under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year from receiv… |
| 24-7334 | Brandon Rashaad Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 24-7286 | Christopher Glen Mason v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment and whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession that has cross… |
| 24-7275 | Jacob Thomas Mireles v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-7260 | Dawon Hennings v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 24-7242 | Lazarus Casas v. New York | New York | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment licensing-regime proper-cause-requirement second-amendment | Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, may New York punish an individual for failing to comply with the licensing regime… |
| 24-7244 | Samuel York v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession jurisdictional-burden second-amendment | Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment and does it violate the Commerce Clause when the government's only juris… |
| 24-7217 | Ladarius Dean v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior convictions violates the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause |
| 24-7188 | Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute criminalizing firearm possession by marijuana users violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7168 | Raymond Charles, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession for individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7158 | Ramoine White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights convicted-felon criminal-activity evidence-standard firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the evidence established articulable facts that the Petitioner was involved in criminal activity and whether the prosecution and conviction fo… |
| 24-7045 | Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | Whether the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain multiple drug and firearm-related convictions and whether the imposed sentence violates due proc… |
| 24-6936 | Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac… |
| 24-6924 | John Gabriel Trevino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) and post-conviction supervised release restrictions prohibiting firearm possession comport with the Second Amendment |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, or whether such challenges … |
| 24-6789 | Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen |
| 24-6738 | Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop | Whether law enforcement can conduct a Terry stop based on subjective factors without specific evidence of criminal activity, and whether a sentencing … |
| 24-6731 | Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits felon-in-possession firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 24-6713 | Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction | Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defend… |
| 24-6666 | Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 24-6669 | Gregory Stump v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment serial-number-obliteration statutory-interpretation | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h) prohibiting possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-6608 | Felix Pusey v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | eighth-amendment firearm-possession juvenile-offender mandatory-minimum second-amendment sixth-amendment | Whether a Florida statute criminalizing firearm possession for individuals under 24 with prior juvenile felony adjudications violates the Second Amend… |
| 24-6582 | Dajuan Martin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is per… |
| 24-6567 | Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | QP: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a four-level sentencing enhancement for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 24-6452 | Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-773 | Joshua Wade v. University of Michigan | Michigan | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | campus-carry constitutional-rights firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment second-amendment sensitive-places | Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments allow a criminal ordinance that prohibits mere possession of firearms on an entire poorly-delineated univ… |
| 24A669 | Dajuan Martin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person satisfies the elements of a substantive federal crimi… | |
| 24A633 | Diontai Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | bruen firearm-possession gun-control historical-tradition second-amendment supervised-release | Whether a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior nonviolent convictions is consistent with the Second Amendment's histor… | |
| 24-6186 | Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether mere possession of a firearm in the same location as drug trafficking constitutes possession 'in furtherance of' a drug offense under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24A600 | Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | aliens-unlawfully-present bruen firearm-possession historical-tradition rahimi second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A)'s prohibition on firearm possession by aliens unlawfully in the United States is consistent with the historical tradi… | |
| 24-6102 | Cleate Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong… |
| 24-6063 | Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with prior criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment and exceeds Cong… |
| 24-6064 | Johnny Nunez Garcia v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-review firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release | Whether a term of supervised release prohibiting possession of firearms violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5951 | Manuel Moya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a lifetime ban on firearm possession for felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional given the lack of a historical analog… |
| 24-5902 | Demetrius D. Bibbs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy convicted-felon firearm-possession heroin-distribution insufficient-evidence manifest-weight | Whether there is insufficient evidence to convict Mr. Bibbs of heroin distribution conspiracy and firearm possession by a convicted felon, and whether… |
| 24-5869 | Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | Whether mere presence of a firearm and nexus to narcotic activity is sufficient to apply the dangerous weapon enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)… |
| 24A384 | Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal double-counting eighth-circuit firearm-possession high-speed-chase sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly applied the Sentencing Guidelines by double-counting a high-speed chase for both a firearm enhancement and a rec… | |
| 24A392 | Rhobashi Holmes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing | Whether a conviction for possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) requires proof of the defendant's knowledge … | |
| 24-5795 | Carl Langston v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Petitioner's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment where th… |
| 24-5786 | Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-5690 | Rayzjaun Curry v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment | Whether the federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by a felon is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 24-5540 | Mykel Lee McMillion v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure firearm-possession fourth-amendment open-carry warrantless-seizure | Whether the possession of a firearm in an open-carry state, combined with other wholly innocent factors, is sufficient to justify a warrantless seizur… |
| 24-5507 | Taylor Hildreth v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-5479 | Nathan Steward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce prior-conviction second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment and the Commerce Clause in prohibiting firearm possession for individuals with prior convi… |
| 24-5406 | Michael Hoeft v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9) prohibiting firearm possession by certain convicted persons are facially unconstitutional under the Second Amend… |
| 24-5391 | Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment's right to bear ar… |
| 24-5392 | Stephon James Whitney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split en-banc-review firearm-possession prohibited-person second-amendment section-922g | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of Rahimi? |
| 24-5393 | Taddius Tyrone Woods v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is constitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 24-5376 | Donald Davis Gipson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for firearm possession based on interstate travel and whether such statute is facially unconstitutional … |
| 24-5315 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-13 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal statute prohibiting firearm possession by individuals with prior felony convictions violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-5261 | Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 24-5229 | Justin Levar Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-5211 | Jerod Askew v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether a jury instruction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires reference to 'mere presence' and allows for the jury to draw inferences from improper leg… |
| 24-5101 | Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 24-5103 | David Thomas Overman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 24-5112 | Austin Wayne Massey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 24-5087 | Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defendant'… |
| 23-7762 | Christopher McPherson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in upholding the convictions on Count V and Count IV |
| 23-7728 | Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness | 2nd-amendment |
| 23-7715 | Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation | Whether Substubal Evidence Supports the District Court's Holding beyond a reasonable doubt that Noel Berd and Boyle Banks were Cohabiting at the time … |
| 23-7689 | Ardis Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7693 | Jonathan Jamal Bangash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 23-7660 | Michael Steven Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7662 | Felix Olivas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-power felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-7670 | James Edward Young v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7653 | Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23A1070 | Thomas George Stanko v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment supreme-court-review | Whether a felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid in light of recent Second Amendment jurisprudence | |
| 23-7451 | Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 23-7419 | Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7421 | Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7401 | Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-1171 | Terrance Guinn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-review constitutional-law due-process factual-innocence federal-habeas firearm-possession firearms rehaif retroactive-application statutory-interpretation | Whether petitioner is entitled to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) based on his claim that his conviction for possessing a f… |
| 23-7342 | Marlon Jermaine Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession gun-ownership non-violent-felon second-amendment | Whether petitioner's conviction for being a non-violent felon in possession of a firearm violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-7305 | Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7293 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment |
| 23-7288 | Jorge Bartolomei v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the statute prohibiting the possession of a firearm by any person who was previously convicted of 'a crime punishable by imprisonment for a te… |
| 23-7235 | Troy Dontae Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7179 | Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7181 | Austin Drake Day v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7160 | John Michael Carrasco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-7125 | Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause |
| 23-7075 | Breon D. Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user | Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury concerning the Section 924(c) charges? |
| 23-7001 | Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-6973 | Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-6881 | Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6850 | Eric Michael Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23-6793 | Timothy Burks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6769 | Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, … |
| 23A757 | Breon Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user | Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(3), which criminalizes firearm possession by unlawful drug users, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment | |
| 23-6750 | Patrick Aboite v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) complies with the Second Amendment? |
| 23-6724 | Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | Does a defendant's guilty plea to an indictment charging multiple violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), unlawful firearm possession, waive his Double Jeop… |
| 23-6687 | Darius James Francis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6647 | Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6601 | Quentin John Fishburne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov… |
| 23A686 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of 'serious drug offense' requires a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years or more for the unde… | |
| 23A612 | Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference | |
| 23-6335 | Devonne L. Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-leadership criminal-organization criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession guideline-enhancement leadership sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review | Whether the lower court erred in applying a 4-level increase pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1(a) in determining the Petitioner to be an o… |
| 23-6339 | Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit | Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm-possession case when it receives evidence about a prior, unrelated allegation of… |
| 23-6278 | Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) |
| 23-6218 | Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23A509 | Melynda Vincent v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | bruen-test circuit-split constitutional-history firearm-possession non-violent-felony second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment permits the federal government to permanently prohibit possession of firearms by individuals convicted of non-violent fel… | |
| 23-6091 | Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-11-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence under Florida Statute § 775.087(2)(a)1 when the defe… |
| 23-6100 | Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation | Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines |
| 23-6042 | Joel Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm 'in furtherance of' a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 23-5934 | Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5920 | Leopoldo Ramirez-Moreno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-authority firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce scarborough state-affairs united-states-v-lopez | Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because the firearm crossed state lines at some point before the defendant … |
| 23-5908 | Michael James Choulat v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | IFP | which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5876 | Christian Lamar Porter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5893 | Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement? |
| 23-374 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Bryan David Range | Third Circuit | 2023-10-10 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process felons felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) complies with the Second Amendment |
| 23-376 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-5742 | Joseph Michael Easton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5718 | Adam Neftali Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing | Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant? |
| 23-5639 | Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard | Was the defense counsel ineffective under Strickland v. Washington? |
| 23-5190 | Mardy D. Mollett, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession justification-defense second-amendment | Does the inclusion of a fifth element of the justification defense for being a felon in possession of a firearm, requiring the Defendant to prove that… |
| 23A28 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Presumed Complete | carjacking confrontation-clause eighth-circuit fair-trial firearm-possession sixth-amendment | Whether the Eighth Circuit violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment and denied Mr. Crowe his constitutional right to a fair trial in h… | |
| 22-7670 | Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding sufficient evidence to convict the defendant under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) based solely on the defendant's ack… |
| 22-7644 | Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7524 | Larry Carl Mack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7460 | Carlos Darnell Dixon v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-05-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence firearm-possession jury-inference jury-trial second-amendment | To what extent may the State violate a citizen's right to bear arms as secured by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution against him/h… |
| 22-7155 | Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt | Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. OceanAvent possessed a firearm |
| 22-7157 | Andreqio Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation | Does the different language used by Congress as to the possession crime require a jury to find more than a prior shipping or transportation of the fir… |
| 22-7066 | Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant can be found guilty for a parole violation and a criminal violation for illegal possession of a firearm if it is illegal to tran… |
| 22-915 | United States v. Zackey Rahimi | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (69)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment |
| 22-6854 | Xavier Sims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States to criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm on the sole basis that the firearm once mo… |
| 22-6573 | Delamon A. Marshall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Does a prior conviction for domestic violence qualify as a violent felony under the ACCA? |
| 22-6422 | Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6331 | Lance Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 6th-amendment-confrontation,due-process,speedy-trial-act,6th-amendment,daubert,dna-evidence |
| 22-6318 | Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6314 | Ramiro Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6151 | Demon Reese v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-6047 | Juan Teran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-5918 | Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority in enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)) |
| 22-5838 | Yasser Ashburn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act | Whether requisite proof to establish a RICO offense or RICO conspiracy requires a 'gang related purpose' or 'gaining entrance to, or maintaining or in… |
| 22-5639 | Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-5406 | Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California | California | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | Whether California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 violates the Second Amendment by making possessing certain drugs while armed a felony |
| 22-5242 | Tavaras Etone Warren v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-indictment due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exclusion statutory-interpretation | Is such other offense categorically excluded from being treated as a crime of violence? |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government must show the defendant's regular or habitual drug use to establish that the defendant is an 'unlawful user' of a controlled su… |
| 22-5138 | Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing | Whether a certificate of appealability should be granted due to the District Court and Ninth Circuit's error in not granting it |
| 22-5062 | Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden | Third Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a fir… |
| 22-5057 | Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus | Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution under the minimal nexus standard by only providing evidence tha… |
| 21-8272 | Robert Edward Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8044 | Bobby Dewayne Thompson, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions right-to-counsel second-amendment trial-strategy | Did trial counsel entirely fail to present a defense to illegally possessing a firearm by conceding that Thompson possessed a gun when the court's ins… |
| 21-7971 | Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-1341 | Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court | Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of 'illegally' possessing out… |
| 21-7529 | Jesse Dean Mince v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7459 | Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) |
| 21-7433 | Donnell Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7403 | James Calvin Breeden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion | Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 21-1249 | John E. Cassidy v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process firearm-licensing firearm-possession home-possession licensing-scheme new-residents privileges-and-immunities second-amendment strict-scrutiny | Does the Second Amendment's core protections, the Due Process Clause, and Privileges and Immunities Clause extend to new residents when they import le… |
| 21-7356 | Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct | Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug-trafficking,firearm-possession |
| 21-7359 | Kaleb Gattis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7118 | Joshua B. Davoren v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession home-defense racial-inequality second-amendment standing takings | Is a statute that makes it a crime for every person, including responsible, law-abiding citizens, to possess a firearm, rifle, shotgun, or ammunition … |
| 21-6993 | Damon Willis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen | Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal… |
| 21-6768 | Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether a felon's intrastate possession of a firearm violates 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) solely because the firearm previously crossed state lines |
| 21-6589 | Lamont Guinyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause |
| 21-6148 | Lonnie Earl Parlor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking enhancement-factors firearm-possession firearms relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines specific-offense-characteristics statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | Whether a defendant's uncharged possession of firearms is 'relevant conduct' for sentencing enhancement |
| 21-6044 | Kenneth Jay Still v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant prohibited from possessing a firearm may not present a justification defense if he or she… |
| 21-6046 | Jacques Lisbey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional |
| 21-5905 | Mitchell L. Christen v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment alcohol-intoxication civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession self-defense standing state-regulation takings | May the State criminalize Mr. Christen's otherwise constitutionally protected actions purely on the basis of his legal intoxication? |
| 21-5827 | Jerry Ray Craine v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5610 | Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51 is a crime of violence |
| 21-5559 | Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea | Whether possession of a firearm is 'in or affecting commerce' when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-5548 | Brent Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight | Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for 'reckless endangerment during flight' after already applying a 4-level 'i… |
| 21-5432 | Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove the defendant's knowledge of the specific elements of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence in a prosecution unde… |
| 21-175 | P. Z. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment heller mcdonald public-safety scrutiny-level second-amendment | What is the proper level of scrutiny for the Second Amendment right to possess firearms in the home? |
| 21-5244 | Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez | If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently-applied case decision, i.e,… |
| 21-104 | Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether there can be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the pr… | |
| 21-5211 | Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing | Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense? |
| 21-5060 | Kevin Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes | Whether a defendant must know his prior conviction qualified as a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) |
| 20-8228 | John Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery? |
| 20-8216 | Justin Michael Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment | Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction for carjacking and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence when t… |
| 20-8066 | James Hill v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal government may obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on the purely local possession of a firearm that has previous… |
| 20-8011 | Troy Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 20-7961 | Antonio Olmeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a Judgment and Conviction on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m… |
| 20-1522 | United States v. Malik Nasir | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-7897 | Steve L. Stanaland, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence firearm-possession right-to-counsel second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense in one's home in a desolate area far from law enforcement |
| 20-7867 | Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes | Does the Double Jeopardy Clause permit charging multiple 'status crimes' for a single criminal act? |
| 20-7680 | Jonathan Beasley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove the defendant knew his prior conviction prohibited firearm possession |
| 20-1295 | United States v. Timothy Zachary Green | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | GVR | Relisted (2) | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-7476 | Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement | Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7360 | Emmanuel Feaster v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that petitioner Emmanuel Feaste… |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic-violence-offender, where the evidence indica… |
| 20-1167 | Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | firearm-possession guilty-knowledge plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment-rights statutory-exceptions unconstitutionally-vague visa-holder | Should the Court grant review to clarify the guilty knowledge element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B) | |
| 20-7181 | Quincy O'Neill Taylor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm firearm-possession government-burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dye united-states-v-frady | Whether the phrase 'in furtherance of' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A) requires the government to show a 'nexus' between the firearm and the drug traffickin… |
| 20-7122 | Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states | Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State… |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether innocent transitory possession is an affirmative defense to illegal possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. 922(g) |
| 20-6973 | Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the po… |
| 20-6878 | Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-902 | Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Amici (4) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-6640 | James David Perryman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-812 | Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Amici (5) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment |
| 20-6610 | Luis Sanabria-Robreno v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-922g constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states | When defendants plead guilty, can a court treat a plea as constitutionally valid when it was entered without knowledge of an offense element? |
| 20-6486 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | Whether a reviewing court may consider a defendant's criminal history facts not admitted at trial when determining if an omission of an essential elem… |
| 20-6465 | Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence at trial was sufficient to convict Petitioner |
| 20-6412 | Robert St. Hilaire v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit properly construed the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B) |
| 20-6420 | Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6373 | Cordarrius Bonds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error | Whether a defendant who pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm is entitled to automatic plain-error reversal when the plea was neithe… |
| 20-6109 | Rashawn D. Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states | Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated |
| 20-444 | United States v. Michael Andrew Gary | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did no… |
| 20-5939 | Kadeem Burden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment | Whether a reviewing court may affirm a conviction under plain error review based on speculation about the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited stat… |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | Whether courts of appeals may affirm a defendant's conviction by relying on facts about the defendant's prior convictions that were not proven to the … |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith kn… |
| 20-5579 | Israel Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing | Whether an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons can bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to … |
| 20-256 | Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether separate convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) require separate predicate crimes and separate acts of using, carrying, or possessing a firea… |
| 20-5341 | Erik Becerra v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation | Does federal law permit the judicial development of an innocent-transitory possession (ITP) affirmative defense in a criminal prosecution for unlawful… |
| 20-5321 | Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5058 | Randy Estevez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity | Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the fir… |
| 20-5025 | Eddie Matthew Amos v. Tommy Bowen | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | convicted-felon criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial felon-in-possession firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense | Is a criminal defendant denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel fails to request a jury instruction on self-d… |
| 20-5008 | Emilio Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-8662 | Jason Paris Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-8453 | John Christopher Dobbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines | When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… |
| 19-7855 | Jeremy T. Walker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration | Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7305 | William James Springer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense … |
| 19-7271 | Eric Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic |
| 19-6902 | Samir Benamor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics that make its possession illega… |
| 19-6910 | Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional | Whether Article 42.013 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure contravenes Apprendi v. New Jersey by requiring judges, not juries, to make family-viol… |
| 19-6791 | Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-6757 | Jamal Bowens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6722 | Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Did the Petitioner know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a gun or firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) |
| 19-6569 | Keyon W. Carraway v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclude that Rehaif v. United States requires knowledge of a firearm's inte… |
| 19-6517 | Lynden Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-566 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-30 | GVR | 922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentence is 'imposed' within the meaning of §401(c) of the First Step Act when it is first issued by the district court, or when it becomes … | |
| 19-6420 | Christopher Mark Heath v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm 'in furtherance of' the conspi… |
| 19-6320 | Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6249 | Michael Terrill Faircloth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 affirmative-defense circuit-split criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession innocent-possession safe-streets-act transitory-possession | Whether a felon may assert an affirmative defense of innocent, transitory possession when charged as a felon-in-possession of a firearm under § 922(g)… |
| 19-6178 | Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-426 | Pennsylvania v. Michael J. Hicks | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process element-or-defense-test firearm-possession innocent-scenarios law-enforcement police-officer police-stop reasonable-suspicion stop totality-of-circumstances | Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision is contrary to SCOTUS precedent on reasonable suspicion analysis |
| 19-6119 | Masnik Sainmelus v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 | Whether the district court erred in increasing the appellant's guideline range by finding the offense involved 8-24 firearms under U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(1… |
| 19-5699 | Robert Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-5654 | Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-5330 | Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | GVR | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury on a crucial element of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) |
| 19-5272 | Pereneal Kizzee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f… |
| 19-5176 | Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing | Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 19-5025 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-01 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) conviction … |
| 18-9726 | Lorenzo Hale v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 18-9444 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-28 | GVR | IFP | 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | whether-congress-may-criminalize-intrastate-firearm-possession |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the four-level enhancement for possessing a firearm in connection with another felony offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) applies whe… |
| 18-8988 | Airrington L. Sykes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize … |
| 18-8842 | Michael Demon Nixon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 18-8739 | Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession | Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o… |
| 18-8456 | Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation | Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted in … |
| 18-7609 | Merlin Alston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the conviction of a local police officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 924(c… |
| 18-7393 | Rodrigo Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |
| 18-7352 | Giovanni Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7195 | Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion | Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… |
| 18-7152 | Yosnel Bonet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7123 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7071 | Chad Preston Brewer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition statute |
| 18-6917 | Rodolfo Portela v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance |
| 18-6563 | Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-574 | Joseph Rachal v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence | Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de… |
| 18-6265 | Samuel Silva v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 | Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un… |
| 18-6282 | Iseal Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy |
| 18-6073 | Tramain Deon Price v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause in enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute |
| 18-5762 | Pedro Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5612 | Detrick C. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appealability |
| 18-191 | John Cassidy v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-possession heller home-firearm-rights home-possession intermediate-scrutiny interstate-firearm-transfer mcdonald presumptively-lawful-restrictions scrutiny-standard second-amendment state-restrictions strict-scrutiny | What level of scrutiny should be used in reviewing statutes that punish possession of lawfully acquired arms kept in the home? |
| 18-5593 | Maurice Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 | Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-5363 | Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines | Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) criminalize the defendant's subjective intent or the firearm's objective potential? |
| 18-5074 | Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce | Did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request for an entrapment instruction? |