alternative-means
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1101 | Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen | District of Columbia | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden | Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief |
| 19-7003 | Quintin Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony | Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 18-9219 | Yaqob Tafan Thomas v. Joseph P. Meko, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-factor alternative-means burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-scrutiny due-process jury-instructions presumption richardson-v-us-schad-v-arizona | Does it violate the due process clause when a state intentionally refuses to define every elemental fact in 'alternative means' statute thereby creati… |
| 18-7572 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Wisconsin's burglary statute defines alternative means, making it broader than generic burglary and not a qualifying prior conviction under th… |