deadly-weapon

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5679 Lewis Anderson v. California California 2025-09-18 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights deadly-weapon due-process evidence-admission propensity-evidence trial-procedure Whether California state courts violated petitioner's constitutional rights by admitting propensity evidence and convicting for assault with a deadly …
25A201 Michael Donell Glover v. Texas Texas 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Whether a pocketknife can categorically qualify as a 'deadly weapon' under Texas law when its potential for causing serious bodily injury depends on t…
24-6166 Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas Texas 2024-12-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion Whether evidence of former provocation is material in a Sudden Passion case and whether the legal standard was correctly applied in the analysis of se…
23-7339 Philip Shane Young v. Texas Texas 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure deadly-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-instructions standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's finding that a deadly weapon was used?
21-5490 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2021-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the trial court and criminal court of appeals of Texas violated established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme Court
20-7020 Richie Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether intent to cause bodily injury is required for 18 U.S.C. §111(b) violation
20-6796 Simon A. Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Trial Counsel failure to object a factual withholding with Guilty modifications in two (Pharenteticals) of Jury instructions, prevented Juror'…
20-6660 Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circuit s…
19-753 Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout…
19-6699 Andrew McWhorter v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal amended-charges charging-information criminal-procedure deadly-weapon double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment barred the State of Indiana from 'retrying' Petitioner
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…
19-6124 Jerry Scott Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that North Carolina assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious i…
19-5824 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied IFP 5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in its denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S. District Court's denial of …
19-5428 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel
18A1270 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete aggravated-robbery certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Whether a single open-handed push during a shoplifting attempt constitutes use of a 'deadly weapon' under Texas law sufficient to support a first-degr…
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
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…
18-8450 Randall Alan Carder v. California California 2019-03-18 Denied IFP assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d…
18-8294 Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se…
18-8063 Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment Is it unconstitutional for the Texas Legislature to authorize a greater punishment range and maximum punishment for aggravated assault - family violen…
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…