divisible-statute

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-13 Marcellus Henderson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-03 Denied Relisted (2) bank-robbery crime-of-violence divisible-statute elements-clause federal-statute sentencing-enhancement Is federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) a 'crime of violence' for purposes of enhanced sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)?
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)
20-400 James Avery, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state burglary statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act
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…
19-6405 Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Ar…
19-6144 Tom Smith, III v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its statutory mandate
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…
18-7067 Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner's prior state drug offenses qualified as enumerated offenses under the career criminal provision of the United States Sentencing Gu…
18-6705 Richard A. Jiles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary divisibility divisible-statute felon-in-possession georgia georgia-burglary-statute predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement Was the Eleventh Circuit correct to find that Mr. Jiles' prior burglary conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 was a predicate offense under the ACCA, 18 …
18-6495 Richard Anthony Trent v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is 'suggestive' and …
18-6061 Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in…
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…