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25-6747 Brad McLennan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (…
25-6622 Alante Martel Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi…
25-6582 Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6424 Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6432 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or …
25-5972 Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for…
25-5947 Darrell Wickware v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (…
25-5841 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment substantial-effects-test 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of aiding and abetting bank robbery as a "crime of violence" under 924(c)(3)(A) sidesteps the categorica…
25A383 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete categorical-approach circuit-conflict crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instruction section-924(c) Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) based on the categorical approach after Unite…
25A371 Rashun Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the categorical approach in interpreting a state controlled substance statute and disreg…
25A351 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine Whether a circuit split exists regarding the proper categorical approach to interpreting a specific legal doctrine based on Founding-era historical pr…
25A299 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) after the Supreme Court's decisions in Mathis…
25-5620 Terry Duane Qualls v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-12 Pending IFP appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object.
25-5334 Billy Joe Russell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci…
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic…
24-1183 Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law Whether a categorical mismatch occurs when the elements of a predicate state offense criminalize conduct outside the enumerated offense under the thre…
24-6396 Ryan Perrin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)…
24-6326 Mark Allen Hayden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Floyd v. State demonstrates that Petitioner's prior statute of conviction cannot be divided for the purposes of the categorical approach, and …
24-6271 Javier Francisco Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-procedure felony-offense probation-revocation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Does the policy statement's text require the categorical approach?
24-6129 In Re Jason Clark 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a categorical approach to sentencing enhancement under 18 USCS 924 can be denied based on United States v. Taylor, and whether a federal prose…
24-6121 Jason Campion v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof categorical-approach federal-definition overbreadth-doctrine state-prosecution statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant must demonstrate an 'actual case' of overbroad prosecution when challenging a state statute under the categorical approach
24-5950 Terry Eugene Iversen v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence public-indecency recidivist Whether a life sentence without parole for recidivist public indecency violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
24A423 Sean J. Trahan v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state child pornography statute that is broader than the federal statute can categorically qualify as an offense 'relating to' child pornogr…
24-5776 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions Whether federal courts should consult the most recent state court decisions or pre-conviction state court decisions when determining the elements of a…
24-5768 James H. Roane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied IFP categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und…
24-5719 Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation When determining whether an offense qualifies as a crime of violence, may a lower court use an approach that does not include the Supreme Court's cate…
24-5683 Ronald Champney v. United States Third Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c third-circuit-court In light of the holding in United States v. Taylor that attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)…
24-5484 Irvin Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation Whether a federal court may reject state appellate authority in determining a state statute's divisibility under the categorical approach and whether …
24-5409 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the categorical approach, the elements of a prior state conviction are determined by judicial interpretations in effect at the time of …
24-5329 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old qualifies as 'abusive sexual conduct in…
24-5322 Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense Can a reviewing court substitute a finding of VICAR's purpose clause for the categorical analysis of whether the elements of its predicate state or fe…
24-5141 Marcus Jay Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-murder attempted-murder-virginia-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals section-924(c) united-states-v-taylor Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding that attempted murder under Virginia law is a crime of violence under the categorical ap…
23-7818 Mark Jordan v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of general intent can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(8)(A)
23-7478 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-14 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution requires an indictment to allege, and a jury to find (or a defendant to admit), the extra facts necessary to impose an ACCA s…
23-1168 Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute Whether a court must apply the categorical approach to the predicate offense supporting a VICAR conviction to determine if it is a crime of violence u…
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the elements of a prior conviction can be determined using current judicial interpretations
23-7173 John Lee Barlow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted …
23-7021 Darron Henderson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach divisibility federal-courts mathis-standard modified-categorical-approach state-law statutory-construction third-circuit-test Whether the Third Circuit's test for divisibility is consistent with Mathis
23-6949 Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach
23-6899 James Earl Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 Whether prior state convictions qualify as 'felony drug offenses' when state statutes encompass broader conduct than federal statutes
23-6871 Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause hobbs-act texas-robbery united-states-v-taylor Does placing another in fear qualify as a threatened use of force under the ACCA's elements clause?
23-6702 Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses Whether RICO incorporates state-law elements or only generic offense categories
23-6656 Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
23-6129 Jarmaine Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence extortion federal-sentencing ohio-revised-code ohio-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Ohio robbery under Ohio Revised Code § 2911.02(A)(2) categorically matches the enumerated offense of 'extortion' under United States Sentencin…
23-6135 Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
23-6082 Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps
23A428 Charles States v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete attempted-murder categorical-approach crime-of-violence sentencing-guidelines substantive-offense united-states-v-taylor Whether the categorical approach for determining a crime of violence requires a nuanced analysis of the specific elements of an attempt crime in light…
23-5939 Brett Northington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation Should the definition of 'aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?' be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea…
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…
23-5655 Christopher T. Mallett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause
23-198 Jamar M. Lewis v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (1) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a…
23-5377 Anthony Seides Gaines v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
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…
23A106 Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-07 Presumed Complete aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach to determining whether a prior conviction constitutes a predicate offense requires courts to compare the specific con…
23-5207 Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP 18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, 'as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the p…
23-5159 Juan Jabari Hollis v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substance-offenses criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines waiver-of-appeal Whether the calculation of the defendant's advisory guideline range, which influenced the sentence imposed, constituted a miscarriage of justice when …
23-5114 Leroy C. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul…
23-5099 Dustin Jolly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should the Supreme Court use its supervisory authority to resolve the conflict between the Sixth Circuit and other circuits on applying the Supreme Co…
22-7755 Jerome Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st…
22-1190 Lavelle Hatley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony Whether a prior conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
22-7736 Brandon Ross Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing Whether the categorical approach for determining a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act applies the federal definition of 'contr…
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7630 Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of…
22-7588 Eric Lee Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach
22-7461 Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony Whether the new statutory definition of 'serious drug felony' in the First Step Act applies to career offender enhancements
22-7194 Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor Whether the reasoning of United States v. Taylor applies to determining if an overbroad state crime qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal Act predicat…
22-946 Martin Jay Manley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering (VICAR) statute is divisible
22-7129 Thomas P. Thayer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense'
22-7052 Colby Todd Dubose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability generic-burglary non-permanent-structures oregon-first-degree-burglary overnight-accommodation reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation stitt-decision stitt-v-united-states Whether Oregon first-degree burglary remains categorically broader than generic burglary after Stitt because it covers non-permanent and mobile struct…
22-6956 Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC …
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 Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
22-6836 Robert Speed v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation Whether RICO is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
22-6717 Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether prior convictions for inchoate offenses involving 'delivery' of controlled substances, where the state statute includes 'attempted transfer' a…
22-6569 Charles Heard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation Does a VICAR murder conviction based on California second-degree murder constitute a crime of violence?
22-6540 Brandon Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al…
22-6497 Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does the struck-down 18 USC 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSG§4B1.2(a)(ii) Ca…
22-6432 Edward Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 …
22-6407 Steven L. Haden v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied IFP categorical-approach criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states elements-test mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States fully retroactive?
22-6389 Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach?
22-6344 Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule
22-6130 Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal …
22-6132 Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)?
22-5982 Richard Allen Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied IFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)?
22-5970 David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Armed Bank Robbery charged as a predicate to Mr. Luster's §924(c)(1)(A)(i) and (ii) convictions includes a mens rea of recklessness or ins…
22-5892 Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir…
22-5877 Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
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 Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary
22-5866 Gregory A. Milton, aka G v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) categorical-approach certiorari-petition constitutional-claim hobbs-act section-924c supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis united-states-v-taylor Whether a Hobbs Act conviction can support a violation of 18 U.S.C. §924(c) under the categorical approach
22-5610 Andre Thompson v. United States Third Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation When applying the categorical approach of 18 U.S.C. §924(c), the elements clause, are courts allowed or required to look to the nature of an offense a…
22-5566 Randly Irvin Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
22-5569 Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-5535 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-5538 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
22-5489 Under Seal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven…
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly
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)
22-5042 Phillip Shiel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
22-5020 Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement Whether due process requires that the comparison of elements of a prior conviction from a foreign state for sentencing enhancement purposes encompass …
21-8230 David Matthews v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Texas simple robbery 'has as an element the ... threatened use of physical force against the person of another'
21-8191 Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten…
21-8127 Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
21-8089 Darrell E. Gillespie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP §924(c)-offense 924c categorical-approach civil-rights conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process force-elements-clause pinkerton-liability Whether the invocation of Pinkerton theory of liability by the government, without more, obviates the government's requirement to satisfy the force/el…
21-8062 Bryant Love v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a state's statutory definition to determine if…
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) Gi)?
21-7907 Christopher Jo Stringer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary-definition categorical-approach generic-offense state-law-interpretation taylor-standard taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-shepard Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when identifying the elements…
21-7657 Kirk L. Floyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony Whether the Georgia burglary statute is divisible for ACCA purposes
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 Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi…
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…
21-7236 Joseph Crocco v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti…
21-7158 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach?
21-6825 Diana Bustamante v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender …
21-6758 Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede…
21-6590 Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-12-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States, 135…
21-829 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed…
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)
21-6231 Christopher Lee Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-375(B) are divisible into three offenses
21-496 Martez L. Smith v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires an o…
21-482 Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o…
21-5813 Anthony Foster v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict?
21-5789 KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation Should courts apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction qualifies as a sex offense under the SORNA residual clause in 34 U.S.C…
21-447 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-22 GVR Relisted (2) actual-bias categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act implied-bias juror-bias juror-dishonesty mcdonongh-power-equipment mcdonough-standard new-trial new-trial-standard Whether a new trial is warranted upon a showing of intentional or inadvertent juror dishonesty
21-5657 Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether armed bank robbery constitutes a crime of violence under the categorical approach of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
21-297 Travis Croft v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act carjacking categorical-approach force-clause fourth-circuit intimidation south-carolina statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in concluding that a conviction for South Carolina carjacking is categorically a crime of violence under the Armed Ca…
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…
21-102 Marcus Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-26 GVR Relisted (2) 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)
21-58 Sassine Razzouk v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an 'offense against property' under the MVRA?
20-8286 Kemon Dominique Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach constitutional-error crime-of-violence guilty-plea hobbs-act-robbery jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether Mr. Thompson's plea of guilty was voluntary, knowing, and intelligent
20-8074 Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation Whether under Duenas-Alvarez and Virginia state decisions, Va. Code § 18.2-168, forgery of public records, is an aggravated felony as a crime relating…
20-8020 Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)?
20-7610 Jose Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-30 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical 'crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)
20-7439 Michael Luis Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o…
20-7417 Allen Pace, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7402 Sylas Glenn Brownridge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7412 Anthony W. Gardner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7383 Jorge Zamora-Suarez, aka Pedro Moncada v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7393 Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-7394 Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon without being advised that one element is knowledge of his s…
20-7327 Timothy A. Ward v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior …
20-7305 Larry Daniel Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation whether-a-conviction-for-hobbs-act-robbery-qualifies-as-a-crime-of-violence-under-18-usc-924c3a
20-7284 Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th…
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 …
20-7188 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 …
20-7163 Gabriel Z. Kershaw v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach charging-document controlled-substance-offense generic-judgment-records shepard-documents u.s.s.g.-§4b1.1 Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a …
20-7120 Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
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…
20-6941 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 …
20-6582 Curtis Ward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-armed-bank-robbery force-clause mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation Does federal armed bank robbery qualify as a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)?
20-6447 Michael Anthony Cernak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause extortion federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law intimidation mandatory-sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(…
20-6450 Lee Yerkes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt Does Georgia burglary qualify as 'generic burglary' under the ACCA?
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
20-6132 Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement Does Gant's exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable-cause, reasonable-suspicion or a categorical-approach …
20-6133 Theodore David Newcomb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority
20-6122 Jerome Capelton v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing Whether the First Circuit's application of the 'realistic probability' standard conflicts with other circuits
20-522 Xavier Demetrius Porter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied categorical-approach dicta federal-court federal-court-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent state-court state-court-dicta statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court applying the categorical approach is required to give significant weight to on point dicta from the relevant State's highest c…
20-5993 Keith A. James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force-clause impersonation intimidation physical-force subjective-intimidation violent-felony Does a prior offense categorically qualify as a violent felony under ACCA's force clause if it only requires a use of 'intimidation' that can be satis…
20-5772 Michael Portanova v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 'categorical approach' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases
20-5774 Archie Manzanares v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony Whether the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which relies on facts rather than elements, abrogates the Supreme Court's holdings that the categorical approach…
20-5658 Martin Racioppi v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's approach to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery statute is divisible is contrary to Mathis v. United State…
20-5595 Joshua Glen Box v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri…
20-5585 Denis Nikolla v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test Whether the categorical approach requires courts to limit the plain language of a federal criminal statute to the generic definition, even when the st…
20-5515 In Re Tracey A. Merrill 2020-08-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
20-5435 Garnett Lloyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach chevron-deference cyberstalking federal-offense sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-interpretation specified-offense-against-minor Whether SORNA's definition of 'sex offense' includes federal offenses not listed in § 20911(5)(A)(iii)
20-5348 Chazdin Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
20-5202 Jerome Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines Whether the New York crime of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a 'crime of violence
20-5075 Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-5076 Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic 'theft' offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)?
20-5054 Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the 'related to' test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense
19-8884 Samuel Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a prior Georgia robbery conviction constitutes a 'crime of violence' for enhancement purposes
19-8756 Kevin Ingram v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-offense categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute federal-sentencing james-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis If a completed offense is categorically a 'crime of violence' within 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause, is the attempted commission of that o…
19-8688 Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016…
19-8583 Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an offense that can be committed by omission rather than affirmative act necessarily entails the 'use' of force within the meaning of 18 U.S.C…
19-8414 Ashford James Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to properly apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction is a 'serious drug offense…
19-8221 Feuu Fagatele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence?
19-8043 Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a 'crime of violence' that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(…
19-7972 Javier Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the parameters set forth by this Court by using the modified categorical approach instead of the categorical appro…
19-7965 Cedric Edney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit…
19-7879 Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Is first degree murder under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code a 'crime of violence' for the purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)?
19-7824 Dexter Fisher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses …
19-7766 Guillermo Garcia v. B. A. Lacey, et al. California 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo…
19-7646 Davion Fitzgerald v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub…
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…
19-7665 Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to 'controlled substance offense', 'serious drug offense', and 'felo…
19-7562 Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach drug-offenses fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-categorical-approach mathis-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Does the Fourth Circuit's non-traditional definition of the categorical approach permit an overbroad definition of 'serious drug offenses' for career …
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-7520 Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-7472 Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)?
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)
19-7334 Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether force required to commit Hobbs Act robbery satisfies the physical force standard of Johnson I to categorically qualify the elements clause of …
19-7307 Julian Moz-Aguilar v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach conduct-based-inquiry crime-of-violence elements-clause force-requirement johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach physical-force sentencing-court Whether a sentencing court may consider a defendant's actual conduct in determining if an offense qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 9…
19-7324 Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7326 Jimmy Lee Allred v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1513 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury categorical-approach modified-categorical-approach taylor-v-united-states violent-felony violent-force witness-retaliation when-to-use-categorical-approach
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…
19-7271 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
19-7288 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
19-7260 Darin Kaufmann v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach applies to determining if a state conviction triggers a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)
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 Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary?
19-7067 Michael Baird Jordan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
19-7079 Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) …
19-7045 Michael Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense Whether the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Guidelines requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of…
19-7007 Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a …
19-6979 Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 requires an element of 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the pe…
19-6965 Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
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 Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-774 Marcus Terrelle Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute federal-sentencing predicate-offense state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including purchasing, which does not meet the definition of a …
19-6939 Anthony Scott Hunt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP base-offense-level categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense divisibility drug-statute modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-§-4b1.2(b) u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(a)(4)(a) u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Whether a state drug statute that is either (1) completely indivisible or (2) at most only generally divisible into no more than three separate offens…
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…
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6864 Cedis R. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach categorical-review crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process offense-of-violence sentencing-guidelines sentencing-predicate state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§4a1.1(e) vagueness vagueness-analysis vagueness-doctrine Does a state court conviction qualify as an 'offense of violence' for sentencing purposes if the state offense can be committed without physical harm?
19-6832 James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car…
19-6736 Ralph Colombo v. Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, et al. California 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process legal-enforcement statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute utilizes the categorical approach and should be declared void for vagueness
19-6675 Michael Ray Bishop v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines?
19-6687 Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6706 Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical…
19-6671 Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
19-6672 Erwin Keith Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
19-6677 Justin Scott Vasey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the 'lowest level of conduct' as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent…
19-6586 Shane Inghels v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed…
19-6389 Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief
19-6397 Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense…
19-6354 Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9…
19-6309 Charles Benton Bagwell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intentional-force intentional-use-of-force statutory-interpretation Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) …
19-6278 Kenneth Lyle Spangle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 arbitrary-and-capricious bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence due-process federal-bank-robbery fifth-amendment meaningful-review Whether the Circuit's decision to deny a certificate of appealability without any analysis or explanation for its decision at all was so arbitrary and…
19-469 John Hsu v. City of Berkeley, California California 2019-10-10 Denied arbitrary-enforcement california-law categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process legal-enforcement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness vexatious-litigant void-for-vagueness Whether California's vexatious litigant statute, in key provisions, utilizes the categorical approach, requiring guesswork and inviting arbitrary enfo…
19-6238 Brannon D. Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) 18-USC-924c categorical-approach contemporary-interpretation crime-of-violence elements-clause predicate-crime statutory-interpretation Whether courts must analyze the least of the acts historically criminalized under the predicate crime or a contemporary interpretation suffices to sat…
19-6142 Santo Leone v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion amendment categorical-approach civil-procedure district-court-discretion divisibility drug-convictions due-process first-step-act marijuana-convictions motion-to-amend prior-convictions section-851 standing timeliness Whether district court abused its discretion by concluding motion to amend should be denied as untimely?
19-438 Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5) ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
19-6128 Bacari McCarthren v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-battery categorical-approach crime-of-violence deadly-weapon descamps descamps-v-united-states mathis physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation turner Whether the Florida crime of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon categorically requires the use, threatened use, or attempted use of physical forc…
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…
19-6120 Raul Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether this petition should be granted, the vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determination in the first instance of…
19-6037 John Anzures v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach commercial-burglary generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause sentencing-enhancement stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states Whether a commercial burglary conviction under New Mexico law categorically does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's…
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a 'crime of violence' under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A), unde…
19-5976 Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off…
19-5923 Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used in…
19-5835 Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic 'theft' offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(G)?
19-5789 Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-03 GVR Relisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin…
19-5732 Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation To establish a 'realistic probability' that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of the categoric…
19-5629 Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-133 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the force clause of the Armed Career …
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 Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than the enumerated offense of burglary in the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-5460 Jose Ortega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis
19-5491 Shed T. Woods v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under th…
19-5456 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 GVR IFP anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
19-5278 Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether the determination of a serious drug offense under the ACCA requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a violent felon…
19-5236 Seab Nolen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
19-5194 Edward Hector v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), where the off…
19-5096 Nicholas Rivera v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement
19-5100 Matthew Karahalios v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation Does unarmed bank robbery serve as a predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using or carrying a firearm during and in re…
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific…
19-5089 Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'crime of violence' element of physical force, and one of which does n…
19-5061 Akeem Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B)
19-5024 William Thrower v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-based-inquiry elements-clause new-york-penal-law realistic-probability-test robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether robbery in the third degree under New York Penal Law § 160.05 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Ac…
18-9793 Timothy Dale Gould v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) divisible for purposes of categorical analysis?
18-9696 Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9673 George Djura Jakubec v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-9618 Rafael Mata-Jimenez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach deportation immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status record-of-conviction relief-from-removal removal-proceedings Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
18-9522 Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92…
18-9432 Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9467 Koran McKinley Allen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9469 Paul Melvin Watson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-4a1.2 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-s-g-4a1-2 Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-9354 Donald Reddick v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) is categorically a crime of violence
18-9320 Domenick James Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi…
18-9248 Preston Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by 'any means' like an omission, qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Careener Criminal …
18-9266 Daniel Rodriguez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-14 GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause in Section 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness
18-9210 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9211 Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the 'crime of violence' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-9183 Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a…
18-1378 Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens…
18-9092 Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv…
18-8874 Anthony Jerome White, aka Dean Braithwaite, aka Carlos Valentine, aka Anthony Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach deadly-weapon elements-clause second-degree-aggravated-assault second-degree-assault third-circuit-court-of-appeals violent-felony Whether Whites Pennsylvania Conviction For Second Degree Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Is Categorically Qualify As A Violent Felony Under Th…
18-8799 Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank …
18-8737 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 GVR IFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s residual clause is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States
18-8654 Karyea Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing the appeal on Mathis applicability to Karyea Williams on collateral review?
18-8445 Tommy McAdoo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force Should this Court accept review to resolve the conflicting 'intimidation' interpretations the Circuits have given the federal bank robbery statute?
18-8406 Demone Rule v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempt-offense attempted-offense categorical-approach elements-clause illinois-law physical-force sentencing-enhancement substantial-step violent-felony Whether an Illinois attempt offense that does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property o…
18-8391 Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8393 Irma Ovalles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8320 Darius Andre Holmes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buford-v-united-states career-offender categorical-approach circuit-court-review criminal-history de-novo-review eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement predicate-offense serious-drug-offense taylor-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rule of Taylor v. United States, 495 US 575(1990), requiring a categorical approach to determi…
18-8327 Robert Nathan Alm v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8302 Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8311 Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) or U.S.S.G. § …
18-8267 Vincent Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's sentence as an ACCA offender must be set aside, whereas O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 is not a viable enumerated offense predicate, based…
18-8245 Gary Casdell Fite v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off…
18-8256 Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8265 Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app…
18-8266 Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-1131 United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten…
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus by narrowing the circumstances under which a federal prisoner can pro…
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…
18-8068 Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-7915 Arthur Sean Warner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present…
18-7833 Jerome Hayes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
18-7783 Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clause …
18-7784 Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off…
18-7797 Coree Patrick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a prior state conviction for a drug offense qualifies as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)
18-7750 Ronald Morrobel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in finding the petitioner was an armed career criminal
18-7726 Carlton Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a…
18-7680 Hector Cirino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
18-7573 Matthew Hearn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
18-7470 Carl Lee Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether federal carjacking by way of intimidation is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s force clause
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…
18-7263 Gerald Patmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2K2.1 based on its determination that Ge…
18-851 Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug dis…
18-7096 Reinaldo Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting…
18-7105 Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'serious drug offense…
18-7127 Christopher French v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
18-7036 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-6913 Lamar Sowell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
18-6858 Micah G. Pritchett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law Whether the Virginia offense of distribution of a controlled substance categorically qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under the U.S. Sent…
18-6870 James Frederick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force Whether causation of harm necessarily entails the use of 'violent force' under Curtis Johnson
18-6757 Ronald Ray Norman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act?
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…
18-6662 Eddie Lee Shular v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony Whether the determination of a serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determinat…
18-6675 In Re Ryan Lee Zater 2018-11-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in other circuits under divergent gatekeeping protocol…
18-6612 James Pinkney v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-08 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the…
18-6574 Curtis D. Hall v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in cases where the defendant was also convicted of using a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)
18-6569 Mark Lee Murray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)
18-6474 Tyrone Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'se…
18-6369 Lashon Browning v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-17 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for …
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 …
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a crime of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
18-6256 William Wise Mock v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation Whether a presentence investigation report can be used as a Shepard document in the categorical approach to determine career offender status
18-6172 Sherman Edward Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior-precedent rule violates due process when applied to orders denying second or successive habeas petitions
18-6009 Emile Myrthil v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force Is 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague?
18-5915 Michael Hill v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony Whether attempt to commit a violent felony is itself a violent felony
18-5866 Nathan Mosley v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
18-5840 George Stoney v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
18-5655 Cory D. Foster v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a 'crime of violence' supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
18-5576 DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 unconstitutional?
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e…
18-5504 William Lem Posey, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States
18-5445 Jason Lee Pyles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i), and whether the s…
18-5321 Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence
18-5274 Manuel Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse…
18-5269 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-5232 Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony Whether a state robbery offense that requires only force sufficient to overcome victim resistance categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under …
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene 2018-07-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure Whether Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitutes a case involving substantial injury and satisfies the Article III case or controversy requirement
18-5095 Tron Lakey Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor…
18-5105 Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether Makonnen's prior convictions for felony battery and attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon qualify as violent felonies under the A…
18-5033 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 1…