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24-5008 Glynzo Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic "burglary" under 18 U.S.C…
22-6867 Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony L. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr…
22-542 Tavaris Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
22-5857 Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Care…
21-8287 Michael D. Phillips v. Florida Florida 2022-06-29 Denied IFP burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder? Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al…
21-7992 Reginald Andre Molette v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)?
21-7583 Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr…
21-5642 Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, …
21-5501 Michael David McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
20-8429 Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing 1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv…
20-8082 Eric Deshan Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision 1. Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated when he was convicted of multiple burglaries based upon a single e…
20-7701 Samuel Alex Gann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the …
20-7188 Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career …
20-6941 Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career …
20-6773 Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio…
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 1. A state crime is a "violent felony" (and therefore a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act) if it "has as an element the u…
20-5588 Joshua Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec…
20-5269 Amadeo Valls v. Florida Florida 2020-08-05 Denied IFP acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error (1) WHETHER Due process prohibits Florida from excluding Hews rea .instruction from Burglary CHARGES or WHETHER IT IS STRUCTURAL ERROR For Trial court…
19-8623 Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle When Vhe Vwo SVaVe CoorVs arrive aV diVYemanV Conclusions in Vhe same case, should Vhe PeViVioner be given a new Vrial and legal principled o&ln Ola V…
19-8030 Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b…
19-7731 Michael Herrold v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation 1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element …
19-7664 Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e…
19-7387 Travis Miles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony 1. Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under …
19-7313 Dalton Crutchfield v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e…
19-7288 John Kelsey Gammell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements In determining whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the ACCA, does the categ…
19-7271 Eric Hall v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of…
19-7168 Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied IFP burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c 1.) WHEATHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPELLATE COUSEL FAILURE TO RAISE THE VALID…
19-7115 Alexander Faulkner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that…
19-7074 Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct…
19-6968 Brian David Brumbach v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." "Burglary" carries the meaning that the majori…
19-6904 Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within…
19-6816 Michael J. Warner, II v. Maine Maine 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit burglary cell-phone-data criminal-evidence nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether an affidavit in support of a search warrant that contains neither specific allegations that a burglary suspect's cell phone data contain evide…
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 1 DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR BY FAILING TO PROVE THE FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT ELEMENT S WITH INTENT TWO COMIT CRIME OF VIOLENCE P 2 DID THE LOWER COURT ER…
19-6116 Ronald E. Evans v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation generic-burglary north-carolina north-carolina-burglary north-carolina-statute second-degree-burglary sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation trailers Whether North Carolina second degree burglary (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51), which encompasses unlawful entries into trailers used to store property, is c…
19-5572 Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-13 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to…
19-151 United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba…
19-5196 Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-15 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t…
18A1315 United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton Fifth Circuit 2019-06-20 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Question not identified.
18-9483 Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER IT IS PERMISSIBLE FOR A STATE CRIMINAL COURT TO PREDICATE FELONY MURDER LIABILITY ON AN ALLEGATION OF BURGLARY THAT LACKS SUFFICIENT BASES IN …
18-9364 Javontae Tyree Street v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing mobile-structure nonpermanent-structure overnight-accommodation predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Whether breaking or entering a nonpermanent or mobile structure that is not adapted or used for overnight accommodation qualifies as the predicate off…
18-8355 Mario Chester Tabron v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without …
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 (1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak…
18-7420 Joe Ray Alires v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin…
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteen…
18-6705 Richard A. Jiles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary divisibility divisible-statute felon-in-possession georgia georgia-burglary-statute predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement Was correct to find that Mr. Jiles' prior burglary conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 was a predicate offense under the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)?
18-6347 Adam Brake v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting firearm-enhancement firearm-theft guideline-enhancements guideline-range sentencing-considerations sentencing-guidelines stolen-firearm u.s.s.g-2k2.1 Whether the district court erred when, based on impermissible double counting, it incorrectly applied a higher guideline range. In calculating Petitio…
18-6317 Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a …
18-6097 Leonard G. Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C…
18-5969 Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error …
18-5480 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony 1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con…