| 25-6568 |
James Dorelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy drug-trafficking firearm-offense safety-valve sentencing-reduction |
Where a defendant pleads guilty to the crime of carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime in violation of 18 USC § 924(c)(… |
| 25A542 |
Deoman Reeves v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Application |
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criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the conjunctive language 'during and in relation to' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) requires a distinct statutory interpretation beyond prior Sup… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)Gi) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concurr… |
| 23-6579 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 23A544 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
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18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement for a felon in possession of a firearm was properly applied and whether the resulting sentence was reasonable… |
| 23-5194 |
Andra Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 23-5166 |
Antwoyn Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of 'serious drug offense' incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the fede… |
| 21-6514 |
Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an information is defective for failing to state the proper elements for the crime of felon in possession of a firearm |
| 20-7145 |
Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error |
Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-6713 |
Danielle Devona Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 924(c) criminalizes two separate offenses - 'carry or use' and 'possession in furtherance of' - and whether both elements must be expl… |
| 20-5252 |
Garry Grace v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of, a crime that was not an offense against the United States |
| 19-6703 |
Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes whose elements are no broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime, is remand required if a defendan… |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-5450 |
Paul Suarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit… |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
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18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-8642 |
DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to address the unconstitutionality of use and carry of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses, in rela… |
| 18-8521 |
Angel Galan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense ineffective-assistance obstruction-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
Whether the sentencing court's upward variance from 71 months to 84 months for felon in possession of a firearm was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-8133 |
Daryl Mingo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction |
When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(G)(1) |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government must show a connection between the predicate offense and the crime of violence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co… |
| 18-6352 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the cross reference under Section 2K2.1(c)(1) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines was applicab… |
| 18-431 |
United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |