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23-6969 James Paul Antonio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica…
22-7232 Darrell Gunn v. Frederick N. Berntein, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment assault assault-case civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-review medical-treatment retaliation Whether plaintiff was within the 5-year statute of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983(a) when he filed Section 1983 claims
21-7014 Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction
21-6826 Todd Stands Alone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation Whether common-law simple assault is an essential element of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b)
21-5080 Emogene R. Brown v. Llyas Shalkh Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied IFP assault battery bodily-integrity civil-rights due-process medical-treatment Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the respondent entered the room with a needle and threatened to inject the petitioner
20-8064 Derrick Grant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether a private prison employee assisting federal marshals is covered under 18 U.S.C. § 1114
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…
20-8018 Deshaun Tisdale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f…
20-7672 James Michael Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury Whether the government may pursue an assault charge after a defendant pleads guilty to felony child abuse where the assault charge subsumes the pled p…
20-7021 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons Whether a 'deadly or dangerous weapon' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro…
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…
20-6379 Brenda L. White v. St. Lawrence Catholic Schools Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP abuse administrative-liability assault civil-rights due-process educational-abuse parental-reporting retaliation school-misconduct student-rights Should teachers be allowed to hurt students?
20-551 Jack Witt Voris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas 2020-10-08 Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process
20-5643 Louis Gene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law Whether causing injury is synonymous with the use of physical force
19-8611 Adam Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation Does applying this automatic rule ignore or misinterpret this Court's caselaw, given the variety of items that are classified as dangerous weapons and…
19-8406 Jihad Shahaddah v. Deputy Gotcher, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-law assault civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review notice statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant had notice of the plaintiffs' assault, and whether the lack of such notice is sufficient to show that the plaintiffs' Eighth Ame…
19-8195 Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied IFP assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 the dismissal was a specific-intent
19-7337 Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a 'crime of violence' under USSG §4B1.2?
19-7016 Matthew Terrell v. C. Armant, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process jackson-v-virginia oral-copulation substantial-evidence Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process…
19-6218 Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt Did the lower court err in failing to prove the first-degree assault and first-degree burglary elements beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-6124 Jerry Scott Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that North Carolina assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious i…
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Whether petitioner's civil rights were violated when his in forma pauperis application was denied, resulting in the dismissal of his civil rights laws…
19-5134 Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force …
18-9812 Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon What is the correct definition of 'dangerous weapon' under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3): (1) an object used in a manner likely to endanger life or inflict gr…
18-8987 Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington Washington 2019-04-26 Denied IFP assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss
18-8450 Randall Alan Carder v. California California 2019-03-18 Denied IFP assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d…
18-8145 Desmond Farmer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red…
18-7663 Randy Jason Ford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force Whether an Iowa 'assault' accompanied only by the 'display' of a dangerous weapon satisfies the 'force clause' to qualify as a predicate offense under…
18-7500 Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied IFP 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses …
18-7233 Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di…
18-6466 Wilson C. Ortega v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-enhancement criminal-street-gang criminal-threats false-imprisonment gang-evidence gang-related ineffective-assistance-of-counsel predicate-offenses prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the admission of irrelevant and inflammatory gang evidence prejudiced the petitioner
18-5489 Min Ho Kwon v. Hyoun Phil Won, et al. Virginia 2018-08-08 Denied IFP assault civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process employment injury insurance-claim liability personal-injury standing worker's-compensation workers-compensation Whether Hyoun, Chan, and Liberty should compensate Kwon for the assault and resulting injuries and lost income
18-5386 Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause …