categorical-analysis
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6797 | Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA | QP: Did the district court err when it used a circumstance-specific analysis to determine that the petitioner's state conviction subjected him to sex … |
| 24-6143 | Gustavo Navaro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements | Whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause an… |
| 24-6141 | Martin Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether Circuits have improperly applied categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's elements under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause and misi… |
| 23-7839 | Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime | Whether a federal court must defer to a state's highest appellate court's 'least culpable' interpretation of a state crime and follow this Court's dir… |
| 23-7797 | Nicholas Brodigan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-liability force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-elements | Whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting and Hobbs Act robbery's distinct elements, which do not meet the req… |
| 23-5852 | Kareem Davis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation | Is murder in aid of racketeering (VICAR murder) an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis based on the generic federal definition of mur… |
| 23-5834 | Herbert Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-waiver categorical-analysis criminal-procedure illegal-conviction illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement statutory-interpretation | Whether an illegal sentence exception to plea agreement waivers can coexist alongside a bar of illegal convictions when a sentence and conviction are … |
| 22-5440 | Joseph Griego v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 21-7878 | Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state … |
| 21-7714 | Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis crime-of-violence federal-predicate federal-statute generic-definitions judicial-review predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether categorical analysis of the predicate crime of violence for a 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) offense allows a reviewing court to 'look through' the … |
| 21-6991 | Lloyd George Kenney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act california-penal-code-207 categorical-analysis criminal-statute divisibility force-clause implicit-threat-of-arrest kidnapping violent-felony | Whether California's simple kidnapping offense as it existed in 1974 was a 'violent felony' under the 'force clause' definition of 'violent felony' fo… |
| 21-6951 | Jacob Allen Adair v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps | Whether—in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit—the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offens… |
| 21-5644 | Michael Hall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3a actus-reus aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-statute force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-physical-force | Whether aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of violent physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 20-5998 | Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 19-7663 | Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states | Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7113 | Raynard Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether bank robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 19-6363 | David Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Did the court of appeals erroneously dispense with the requisite categorical analysis of predicate prior convictions? |
| 18-8065 | James Steven Maxwell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-and-battery categorical-analysis categorical-approach elements-clause force-standard mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states oklahoma-law taylor-precedent | Does Taylor's holding that Oklahoma's offense of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon meets the force standard in the elements clause incorrect… |
| 18-7621 | Jacoby Burns v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute qualify as a 'crime of violence' or 'violent felony'? |
| 18-7388 | David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-7331 | Ishmael Douglas v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-6809 | Desmond Camp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-6665 | Maurice T. Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |