criminal-enterprise
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6705 | Chad B. Wolf v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness | Question I - Was Wolf's Sentence Substantively and Procedurally Unreasonable as Rendered Given The District Court Used a Sentencing Guidelines Calcula… |
| 24-6028 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act | What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's activities in fact af… |
| 24-5503 | Raekwon Malik Patton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-enterprise jury-instructions purpose-element racketeering underlying-offense violent-crimes | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) requires a minimum finding by the jury that the underlying crime was committed as a substantial purpose or integral aspect… |
| 23-7144 | Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court can sentence a defendant to life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction when the jury found the defendant did not agre… |
| 23-6748 | Eric Lavell Minter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial-role s… |
| 23-6211 | Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan | Michigan | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error | Whether the trial court violated petitioner's right to be present, right to counsel, and right to self-representation when it improperly excluded peti… |
| 23-6092 | Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder | Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of 'maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-5997 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enterprise ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interdependence jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in applying the harmless error review under Brecht v. Abrahamson |
| 22-7783 | Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's limitation on First Step Act relief contravenes Terry's element-based determination of eligibility and Concepcion's hol… |
| 22-7309 | James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | IFP | continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range | Whether the First Step Act's 'covered offense' analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi… |
| 22-5838 | Yasser Ashburn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act | Whether requisite proof to establish a RICO offense or RICO conspiracy requires a 'gang related purpose' or 'gaining entrance to, or maintaining or in… |
| 20-8422 | Wayne Porter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and conclusions of facts from the Fourth Ci… |
| 20-6424 | Deloyd Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an 'enterprise' under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared… |
| 20-269 | In Re Barbara Stone | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-enterprise due-process ex-parte-judgment extortion fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-stripping whistleblower-protection writ-of-prohibition | Should a Writ of Prohibition be issued | |
| 19-1324 | Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-01 | Denied | civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) require a plaintiff or prosecutor claiming an 'open pattern' of racketeering to all… | |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 18-7579 | David L. Price v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser | Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to a 37-year sentence for a non-violent drug conspiracy and related offenses |
| 18-7151 | Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting | Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government-agents-and-confidential-informant-engineered-criminal-enterprise |
| 18-11 | Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |