attempted-robbery
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5029 | Damon D. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion attempted-robbery criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court abused its discretion in imposing maximum consecutive sentences for attempted robbery by erroneously applying Federal Sente… |
| 24-7162 | Deshawn Whited v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe… |
| 24A363 | Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Presumed Complete | attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) for attempted Hobbs Act Robbery requires specific intent or meets constitutional standards for criminal l… | |
| 23-5426 | Christopher Robertson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a defendant can be convicted of a 924(c) offense if the defendant was convicted of attempted Hobbs Act robbery |
| 23A120 | Edward Eugene Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Presumed Complete | 924(c) attempted-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act-robbery rule-of-lenity | Whether the categorical approach under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) permits courts to apply the case-specific approach to determine whether a defendant's convic… | |
| 23-5230 | Steven Poppo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial, due process, and assistance of counsel were violated |
| 23-64 | Bennie Charles Phillips, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-robbery criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act mens-rea mere-preparation substantial-step uniform-test | What particularized standard should be adopted to create a uniform test for when conduct surpasses 'mere preparation' and constitutes a 'substantial s… |
| 21-7088 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery are crimes of violence |
| 21-6389 | Thamud Eldridge v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-23 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery categorical-crime-of-violence crime-of-violence hobbs-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a categorical crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) |
| 21-6278 | Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113 falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 21-6176 | Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 21-5664 | Maurice L. Ross v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) |
| 21-5650 | Carl Richard Samson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-13 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 21-386 | Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-09 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 21-5326 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) |
| 20-1459 | United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of 'crime of violence' excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a) |
| 20-1000 | Monico Dominguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | GVR | Relisted (4) | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 20-5245 | Victor John Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as 'a crime of violen… |
| 19-7248 | Christopher Omar Hinton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon federal-sentencing north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 4B1.2 of the United States Sentencing … |
| 19-6651 | Shawn A. Thompson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township | Third Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment standard-of-review third-degree-murder | Did the Trial Court err in failing to provide the jury with the entirety of the Third Degree Murder instructions? |
| 18-6100 | Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states | Whether the Seventh Circuit contravened Stinson v. United States when it relied on guideline commentary inconsistent with 18 U.S.C. § 16 |
| 18-6025 | Rene Borrero v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' is categor… |
| 18-5008 | Autrey Canadate v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-robbery certificate-of-appealability curtis-johnson-v-united-states due-process elements-clause florida-criminal-law use-of-force violent-felony violent-force | Whether the Florida offense of attempted armed robbery categorically requires the use of 'violent force' to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Ar… |