ambiguous-record

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-438 Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5) ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
19-5401 Thomas Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019) apply retroactively to defendant's raising motions to vacate their sentence…
18-9618 Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …