reckless-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6275 Johnny Hamilton v. Georgia Georgia 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-protection due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-emergency reckless-conduct Does Georgia's reckless conduct statute provide adequate notice of prohibited conduct and raise constitutional concerns under due process and Brady v.…
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
22-5534 Glenn A. Chin v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a se…
21-7311 Linda Baldwin v. Office of Injured Employee Counsel Fifth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-statute qualified-immunity reckless-conduct section-1983 Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is a public official liable for reckless conduct that proximately injured another, even with qualified immunity?
21-5046 Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 GVR IFP crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime Whether Mr. Wilkins's conviction for Texas aggravated robbery is a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 in light of Borden v. United States
20-8292 Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa Does the government have sovereign authority to dictate a particular state's choice in which federal law will be prosecuted other than the state accor…
20-7750 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-14 GVR IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act jury-instructions reckless reckless-conduct Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s 'force clause'
20-7749 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-14 GVR IFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property reckless reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s force clause
20-7731 Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery Whether Texas robbery under Tex. Penal Code § 29.02(a) is categorically violent under the ACCA's elements clause
20-6788 Brian Gene McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter Whether federal voluntary manslaughter qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)
20-6756 David Ray Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime Whether Texas robbery has 'the use of physical force against the person of another' as an element
20-6407 Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p…
20-6155 Jordan Sandoval v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a…
20-5434 Treshun Devonte Bates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 GVR Relisted (2)IFP borden-case borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence grant-vacate-remand reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines supreme-court use-of-force Whether reckless conduct can constitute a 'crime of violence' under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
20-5172 Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether reckless-conduct-resulting-in-injury satisfies the 'use-of-physical-force' element of the career-offender-sentencing-guideline
19-6025 Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5652 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-21 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines
18-7432 Cornell W. Barber v. United States District of Columbia 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act