predicate-offenses
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7031 | Christopher William Kuehner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation evidence-sufficiency in-concert-element predicate-offenses subpoena-disclosure user-profile-access | Is the failure to disclose exculpatory subpoena returns until post-trial a Brady violation warranting conviction vacatur; does the 'in concert' elemen… |
| 23-5962 | Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation | Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 22-7660 | Damon L. Buford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment | Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause te… |
| 22-736 | Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-5813 | Anthony Foster v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error | Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict? |
| 21-5494 | In Re Eric W. Poirier | 2021-08-26 | Dismissed | IFP | attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing | Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate of Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Cou… | |
| 20-5595 | Joshua Glen Box v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 19-7417 | Corey Michael Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Can a conviction in North Carolina state court involving the breaking and entering of outbuildings (storage sheds) that were visibly and actually padl… |
| 19-6693 | Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty | Is the fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses 'on occasions different from one another' an element of the ACCA for the jury to dec… |
| 18-9601 | Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment | Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two 'armed career crimina… |
| 18-8662 | Howard Lawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-6466 | Wilson C. Ortega v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-enhancement criminal-street-gang criminal-threats false-imprisonment gang-evidence gang-related ineffective-assistance-of-counsel predicate-offenses prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the admission of irrelevant and inflammatory gang evidence prejudiced the petitioner |