career-criminal-act
2 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-6448 | Joseph D. Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis | Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com… |
| 20-5743 | Johnny Melendez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether counsel rendered ineffective assistance by allowing the court to rely on a prior conviction for sentencing purposes absent court documents to … |