aggravated-felony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6088 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Pending | IFP | administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien wrongly subject to an expedited removal meets the requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d) by showing he was misled by the form and would n… |
| 25-5962 | Ismael Adan Ortiz-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Pending | IFP | administrative-procedure aggravated-felony due-process expedited-removal immigration-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien wrongly subject to expedited removal due to mischaracterization of prior conviction meets statutory requirements for challenging remo… |
| 25A391 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry | Whether a defendant convicted of illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 can challenge their prior deportation based on an incorrect aggravated felony d… | |
| 23A1091 | Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Presumed Complete | aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law | Whether federal immigration authorities can override a state's own classification of a criminal offense when determining whether a conviction constitu… | |
| 22-6095 | Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction | Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachusett… |
| 22-23 | Jean Francois Pugin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | aggravated-felony board-of-immigration-appeals chevron-deference immigration-law immigration-nationality-act obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | Whether a state offense that does not involve interference with an existing official proceeding or investigation may constitute an 'offense relating t… |
| 21-5017 | Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | GVR | IFP | aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 20-8074 | Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether under Duenas-Alvarez and Virginia state decisions, Va. Code § 18.2-168, forgery of public records, is an aggravated felony as a crime relating… |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the mens rea requirement of 'knowingly' in a criminal statute applies to all elements of the offense, or only to those elements that separate … |
| 20-6066 | Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order | Whether courts evaluating a prior removal order in the context of a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry are required to apply the law as it is no… |
| 20-6049 | Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal | Whether a pro se alien's waiver of the right to appeal is 'considered and intelligent' under Mendoza-Lopez in the absence of an opportunity to dispute… |
| 19-8107 | Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of 'aggravated felony' app… |
| 19-946 | William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default | When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of innocence beyond all reasonable doubt and the conviction occurred be… |
| 19-6397 | Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6055 | Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Does a 'theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)' under §1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? |
| 19-28 | Kenneth Daniels v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | aggravated-felony armed-career-criminal-act attempt controlled-substances-act criminal-attempt drug-distribution immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law solicitation uniform-administration | Whether solicitation can by itself constitute an 'attempt' within the meaning of the Controlled Substances Act |
| 18-1593 | Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for assault under a state statute that does not require physical force is categorically a crime of violence under 8 U.S.C. § 16(a… |
| 18-9092 | Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv… |
| 18-7306 | Michael Martin Steele v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video | Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for 'ql… |
| 18-6342 | Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether Section 1326(b) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug-trafficking conviction with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felo… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | whether a state drug-trafficking crime with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felony' o… |