| 25A717 |
Marquise Graham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
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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… |