| 25A660 |
Alante Martel Nelson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
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acca brown-v-united-states career-offender procedural-error sentencing-guidelines time-of-conviction |
Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. United States extends to the interpretation of federal Sentencing Guidelines for determining career o… |
| 25-6126 |
Nathaniel Durham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error |
Does the ACCA occasions-different determination, requiring a multi-factored analysis of the factual circumstances involving at least three prior quali… |
| 23-6871 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause hobbs-act texas-robbery united-states-v-taylor |
Does placing another in fear qualify as a threatened use of force under the ACCA's elements clause? |
| 23-5085 |
Andre Rene Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial |
Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp… |
| 22-806 |
John Doe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acca acca-predicates criminal-justice direct-appeal first-step-act remedial-purpose retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose case was pending on direct appeal at the time of enactment of the First Step Act is entitled to the benefit of §401 (limitin… |
| 22-5720 |
Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Whether Mr. Edmonds was required to prove that it is 'more likely than not' that the sentencing judge 'actually relied on' the ACCA's unconstitutional… |
| 22-5116 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance |
Whether Mr. Vickers was required to prove 'actual reliance' by the sentencing judge on the ACCA's unconstitutional residual clause as a nonwaivable ju… |
| 21-6858 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the ACCA, 851, and Career Offender enhancements should be removed in light of the First Step Act Section 401 and the First Step Implementation… |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com… |
| 20-8334 |
Jerome Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion acca armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states legal-landscape section-2255 sentencing-review |
Where a § 2255 movant relies on evidence of the legal background at the time of his sentencing to prove he was sentenced under an unconstitutional law… |
| 20-8238 |
Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'con… |
| 20-8047 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-6969 |
Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA |
| 20-6458 |
Clayton Lee Waagner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition collateral-estoppel indictment indictment-statute ohio-aggravated-burglary predicate-offense statute-of-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute of conviction must be used for an ACCA predicate offense, or can the district court use the statute listed on the indictment inste… |
| 20-6451 |
Genesis Javon White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
Whether the district court erred in classifying Mr. Griffin as an armed career criminal |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an elem… |
| 19-8489 |
Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a juvenile conviction for possession of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement? |
| 19-7677 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 19-7314 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify … |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA elements clause |
| 19-7115 |
Alexander Faulkner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary? |
| 19-6799 |
Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether counsel's admitted inaccuracy, misinformation, and failure to make specific inquiry regarding the petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA) conflic… |
| 19-6308 |
Ronald Detro Winder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence curtis-johnson elements-clause injury injury-definition physical-force sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a state offense that includes as an element causing injury, but which also defines 'injury' broadly to include more than the 'physical pain or… |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
Whether a state's aiding and abetting statute that is broader than the federal generic definition can qualify as a predicate offense under the ACCA |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of Fla… |
| 19-5478 |
Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance of… |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a serious drug offense under the ACCA requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a violent felon… |
| 18-9796 |
Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'controlled substance offense' as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) i… |
| 18-9760 |
Andrew D. Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18-9547 |
Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify … |
| 18-8911 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith |
Whether a Florida drug offense qualifies as a 'serious drug offense' under the ACCA without mens rea |
| 18-8760 |
James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony |
Whether a sentence as a career offender (ACCA) is valid when a prior violent offense conviction (Florida battery on law enforcement), deemed unconstit… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-8447 |
Javis Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offense qualifies… |
| 18-8380 |
Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as 'serious drug offenses' for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's sentence as an ACCA offender must be set aside, whereas O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 is not a viable enumerated offense predicate, based… |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA |
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether petitioner Willis's 'B&E Occupied' is a violent felony under ACCA? |
| 18-7105 |
Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense… |
| 18-7096 |
Reinaldo Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony |
Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting… |
| 18-6671 |
Jimmy David Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is 'generic' for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
| 18-6277 |
Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for felony battery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA's elements clause |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
May a court grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging a sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the petitioner'… |
| 18-6013 |
Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5576 |
DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 unconstitutional? |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |