racketeering-enterprise

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5768 James H. Roane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied IFP categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und…
24-5042 Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a…
23-1168 Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute Whether a court must apply the categorical approach to the predicate offense supporting a VICAR conviction to determine if it is a crime of violence u…
22-5550 Corey Bailey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception Did the government prove the existence of a racketeering enterprise?
21-6787 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the motive was a but-for cause of the violen…
18-8333 Jorge Sosa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeering e…