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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5169 | Richard Patrick Evensen v. California | California | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state | Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to overcome Jane … |
| 23-6397 | Jaime Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime of physical inaction ever 'has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 22-5637 | Dwayne Stone v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether crimes of physical inaction have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5278 | Jordan Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 20-6137 | Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-5809 | Albert Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute criminal-sentencing force reasonable-fear robbery robbery-force statutory-interpretation stokeling stokeling-definition | Whether the definition of force adopted in Stokeling for robbery eschews a requirement that any fear produced by a threat of force be reasonable? |
| 20-104 | Brian Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | blood-draw breath-test excessive-force force fourth-amendment medical-consent needle-phobia search-and-seizure warrant | Fourth-Amendment |
| 19-8466 | Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force | Whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence of threatened use of force was speculation about sunglasses that may hav… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-6979 | Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 requires an element of 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the pe… |
| 19-6653 | Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence | Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation,' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6623 | Mario Denane Fultz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | Whether Congress intended the phrase 'by force and violence, or by intimidation' that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the use… |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 18-7232 | Arthur Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether a state robbery offense that includes overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's e… |
| 18-6914 | Daniel Rojas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime | What amount of force satisfies the definition of 'physical force' under Johnson v. United States? |
| 18-6612 | James Pinkney v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-08 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the… |
| 18-6424 | Walter Lee Deiter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony | Whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-6257 | Edward Dean McCranie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender colorado-robbery common-law common-law-robbery crime-of-violence force force-clause generic-robbery sentencing-guidelines stokeling-v-united-states tenth-circuit violence | Is Colorado robbery, which follows the common-law definition of the amount of force required, a crime of violence for purposes of the career-offender … |
| 18-5890 | Mark D. Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime | Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5288 | Robert Serrano v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force johnson-definition physical-force state-robbery state-robbery-offense victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under … |
| 18-5095 | Tron Lakey Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime | Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |