| 25-5769 |
Robert Scott Kennedy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal burglary-statute criminal-procedure predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Kennedy was erroneously sentenced as an armed career criminal and received sentencing guidelines enhancements based on two prior Georgi… |
| 23-7841 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents |
Was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed-career-criminal |
| 22-6578 |
Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 21-7520 |
Isaiah Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 2nd-amendment burglary-statute career-offender civil-rights crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing free-speech sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court should exercise its discretion under Romer v. Evans to resolve a circuit split amongst the sister circuits regarding New Jersey's th… |
| 21-7451 |
Michael Shawn Bell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty applies to federal courts' application and interpretation of state-court decisional law |
| 21-7333 |
Andrew Michael Penny v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when identifying the elements… |
| 21-5505 |
Maurice Lamont Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach demand-for-certainty felon-in-possession felon-status intent-element state-law-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a defendant's trial stipulation that he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm is sufficient evidence that he knew of his status at th… |
| 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 |
Whether a burglary statute that omits the element of specific intent qualifies as generic 'burglary' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-7242 |
Xavier Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-definition taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law, including its determination … |
| 20-6979 |
Eddie Charles Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense intent-element shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states |
Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when determining if a prior c… |
| 20-400 |
James Avery, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a state burglary statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-5809 |
Albert Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition |
Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
Whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic |
| 19-6296 |
Michael Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l… |
| 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… |