| 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… |