non-elemental-facts

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
23-5085 Andre Rene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
22-6843 Edgar Barrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
22-6682 Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to impose a mandatory-minimum under ACCA
20-6976 Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement whether-a-federal-court-may-increase-a-defendant's-sentence-under-the-armed-career-criminal-act
20-5404 Jermaine Isaac Ross v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-elemental-facts prior-offenses rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense whether-federal-court-may-increase-sentence-under-acca
18-5439 Adam Longoria v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the ACCA's 'occasions different from one another' clause requires a sentencing court to rely solely on elemental facts, or whether it can rely…