predicate-conviction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5415 Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were…
23-6942 Paulino Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner demonstrates a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right warranting a certificate of appealability
23-198 Jamar M. Lewis v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (1) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a…
21-6192 Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his mandatory life sentence
20-7305 Larry Daniel Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation whether-a-conviction-for-hobbs-act-robbery-qualifies-as-a-crime-of-violence-under-18-usc-924c3a
20-5643 Louis Gene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault burglary civil-rights due-process leocal physical-force predicate-conviction reckless-causation texas-assault-crimes texas-criminal-law Whether causing injury is synonymous with the use of physical force
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…
18-7797 Coree Patrick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a prior state conviction for a drug offense qualifies as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)
18-6993 Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction…
18-6096 Michael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement May a court grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging a sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the petitioner'…
18-5056 Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap…