divisibility-inquiry

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6760 Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi…
21-6320 Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha…
18-6747 Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat…