force-definition

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-106 Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the 'use, attempted use, or threatened us…
22-7872 Carmelita Barela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction can be sustained where the only claimed use of 'violent force' is coughing and claiming to have 'Covid' while s…
22-7760 Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be commit…
20-7087 Brian James Holland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility What is the definition of the term 'force' under 18 U.S.C. § 2241?
19-6850 Ledell Tyler v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct Whether The Meaning of The Word 'Force' Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompasses Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct
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…
18-6461 Gerren K. Love v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio…
18-5061 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 1385 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and …