occasions-different

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A717 Marquise Graham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
22-5417 Charles E. Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi…
21-6657 Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court's consideration of prior offenses under the Armed Career Criminal Act
21-6448 Joseph D. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com…
20-7798 Christopher Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-20 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal…
20-6451 Genesis Javon White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses Whether the district court erred in classifying Mr. Griffin as an armed career criminal
19-7363 Richard Grady Romans v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony Whether a drug conspiracy committed on an occasion different from the drug distribution offenses committed during and in furtherance of that same cons…
18-5497 Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense Whether Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when state law defines 'distribution' to…
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…