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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1141 | Jason Tywann Bell v. John Gilley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | career-offender-guideline habeas-corpus mootness residual-clause sentencing-enhancement suspension-clause | Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i… | |
| 25-7024 | Abraham Rico Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-03-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine beyond-reasonable-doubt indictment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 25-7008 | Daniel Joel Wolf v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-03-11 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial-rights sentencing-enhancement | Whether defendant could be subject to enhanced crime of violence sentencing range, for a "per se" crime of violence, without the rights to be informed… |
| 25-6960 | Shameek J. Halls v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | This Court has held that, "[w]hen a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be par… |
| 25-6924 | Carlos Miranda-De La Hoya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure jury-trial-rights sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The decision in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), shows that Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), can no longer be r… |
| 25-6921 | Eliseo Tello-Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-sentencing jury-trial-rights sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6906 | Namir White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | controlled-substance-offense drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 25-6902 | Alejandro Ferrer v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender jury-trial-right sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Florida Legislature's removal of the jury from the fact finding process that authorized a judge to determine if it was necessary to protec… |
| 25-6869 | Juan Fernandez-Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi-doctrine criminal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6821 | Hugo Almeida-Ponce v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6747 | Brad McLennan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-6654 | Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. Christopher Pierce, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | california-law criminal-procedure due-process notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. Does the California Supreme Court's 1936 holding that a defendant's right to notice does not apply to facts which merely "increase the penalty" vio… |
| 25-821 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim… | |
| 25-6479 | Leontis Cornelius v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-recklessness felon-in-possession jury-trial self-defense sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1.When the government seeks to aggravate the sentence of a felon in possession of a firearm (18 USC § 922 [g]) contending that he violated a State c… |
| 25-6462 | Jamaur Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-6442 | Michael Hinds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac… |
| 25-6432 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or … |
| 25-6412 | Israel Navarro v. New York | New York | 2025-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants, like the petitioner Israel Navarro, the right to a jury trial on statutorily req… |
| 25-6410 | Hunter Michael Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing firearms-display glock-switches instagram-advertisement sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g.-guidelines | Whether the court properly applied a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) based on Petitioner's display of firearms in advertisement… |
| 25A717 | Marquise Graham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A702 | Mark Alan Deakins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6390 | Busch Sereal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non… |
| 25A694 | Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-12-15 | Application | apprendi-line criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habitual-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6332 | Ángel Forteza-García v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement | I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25-6330 | Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement | I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25A678 | Thurmond McDonald v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-09 | Application | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6322 | Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington | Washington | 2025-12-09 | Denied | IFP | factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour… |
| 25A653 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min… | |
| 25-6161 | James Capers v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-standard apprendi-rule constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement | 1) In regards to 21 U.S.C. §846, to be in accordance with both Apprendi and Alleyne , to punish as 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) (10 to life), must the ju… |
| 25-6137 | Devon Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),… |
| 25-6126 | Nathaniel Durham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error | This case presents two important repeatedly occurring criminal-law questions that affect many defendants and have divided judges within the same circu… |
| 25A542 | Deoman Reeves v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6075 | Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement | Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating, at sentencing, for the application of two enhancements, that the parties… |
| 25A535 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement | This document does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The text contains questions posed within the Background section of an ex… | |
| 25-6006 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure indictment-charging rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether, pursuant to Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct 2151, 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013) and Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct 23… |
| 25-5956 | In Re Santos Cuevas | 2025-10-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-remedy double-jeopardy judicial-estoppel post-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. May the Sixth Amendment in retroactive by the state allow remedy to initial and successive post-conviction proceedings, if so, may the right to ef… | |
| 25-5947 | Darrell Wickware v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-5918 | Tommie Lee Page, aka Tommie Page, aka Tommy Page v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure habitual-offender indictment-amendment sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void since the motion to amend Page's indictment was not f… |
| 25-5912 | David Everette v. New York | New York | 2025-10-20 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding persistent-felony-offender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Since deciding that the fact of a prior conviction can "authorize" a longer sentence, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 246 (1998), th… |
| 25-5857 | Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018. Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 25-5847 | Charlie Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp… |
| 25-5817 | Kyle Krill v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-10-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi… |
| 25-5781 | Michael Cobbs v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25-5716 | Jesus Meraz-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement | Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b… |
| 25-5649 | David Anthony Runyon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence fourth-circuit murder-for-hire postconviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | To hold that petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) conviction for conspiracy to commit murder for hire resulting in death was a valid predicate "crime of v… |
| 25-5654 | Thomas Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents sixth-amendment | Because harmless-error review of Erlinger error typically requires appellate judges to evaluate facts outside the record of conviction for the charged… |
| 25A299 | Curtis Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924(c) sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5619 | Michael Garrick Denson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 25A278 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act eleventh-circuit felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 25A225 | Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 25A203 | Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5400 | Andrew Charles Beard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (10)IFP | constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction | 1. Whether challenging an invalid 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a "constitutional claim" that extinguishes the government's power to enforce defenda… |
| 25-5365 | Omar Alonso Pazos-Montes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement | Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b… |
| 25-5344 | Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement | DOES THE COURT'S DECISION IN ERLINGER V. UNITED STATES , 602 U.S. 821 144 S.CT. 1840 _ L.ED.2D_(2024) REQUIRING THAT A JURY PASS ON THE THREE SEPARATE… |
| 25-5333 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding o… |
| 25-5179 | Gerald Lynn Campbell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act erlinger-error guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | This case presents two important questions that impact countless defendants and have divided circuit judges. After Gerald Campbell pled guilty to bei… |
| 25-5093 | Hector Manuel Nunez-Cardenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement | Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b… |
| 25-5087 | Tashawn Burns v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Is Hobbs Act robbery a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after United States v. Taylor, 596 … |
| 25-5063 | John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022), is a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) categoric… |
| 25-5044 | Robert Baise, Jr. v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | alabama-criminal-code conviction-enhancement criminal-procedure misdemeanor-classification presumptive-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Baise conviction's count 104A to 5 and a misdemeanor charge count 093. |
| 25-5058 | Jose Manuel Ayala-Alas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process fair-trial interpreter-rights sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the district court violated Mr. Ayala-Alas's due process rights by requiring him to proceed to trial with only a Spanish interpreter despit… |
| 25A34 | Steven Pitts v. New York | New York | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-rule jury-right prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment tolling-period | The question presented is whether, under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), the purported… | |
| 25A16 | Thomas Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-13 | Marcellus Henderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bank-robbery crime-of-violence divisible-statute elements-clause federal-statute sentencing-enhancement | 1. Is federal bank robbery in § 2113(a) indivisible, such that no form of bank robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of § 924(c)? 2… |
| 25-5024 | Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la… |
| 24-7493 | Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la… |
| 24-7451 | Walston Owen v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute jury-finding racketeering-act rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement substantive-crime | Where a racketeering act amounts to a substantive crime that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, but a racketeering act that amounts to a … |
| 24A1249 | Andrew Charles Beard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence cyberstalking direct-appeal plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7429 | Randy Torres v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's final instruction to the jury for the indictment's Special Sentencing F… |
| 24-7432 | Eleazar Diaz-Balleza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement | Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b… |
| 24-1183 | Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law | Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the … |
| 24-7205 | Oscar Pliego-Pineda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-sentencing-guidelines leadership-role sentencing-enhancement | Whether a Leadership Sentencing Enhancement Is Erroneous Without Evidence That a Defendant Supervised any Specific Individual. |
| 24-7181 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the standard in Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), which requires only a showing that a conflict of interest adversely affected counsel's p… |
| 24-7147 | Idris Quintell Wilkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act cocaine-definition controlled-substances due-process sentencing-enhancement state-vs-federal-law | I. Michigan defines cocaine to include its steroisomers. Federal law defines cocaine to include its optical and geometric isomers. Does Michigan law s… |
| 24-7062 | Damone D. Oakley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2326 criminal-procedure double-counting sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2326(2) and Guideline enhancements implemented by the Sentencing Commission constitute double coun… |
| 24-7013 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt | 1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – prop… |
| 24-6972 | Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement | WHEN FEDERAL DEFENDANTS ARE ATTRIBUTED A DRUG QUANTITY FAILS TO TESTIFY - CONDUCTED AND THERES NO REQUIRE REVERSAL BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION AND THE CH… |
| 24-6961 | Stephen J. Pierre-Paul v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-testimony consciousness-of-guilt cooperating-witness probative-value reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Due Process requires a criminal conviction be obtained by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Cooperating witness testimony is admissible evidence, thoug… |
| 24-6965 | Rocco Americo Malanga v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-guidance criminal-liability due-process sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on agency guidance issued after the alleged conduct, especiall… |
| 24-6913 | Johnson Saint-Louis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the federal bank robbery statute, 18 USC §2113(a) is indivisible and thus not a qualifying "Crime of violence" under 18 USC §924(c)? |
| 24-6898 | Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6824 | Hansel Janel Rijo-Guerrero v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure downward-variance drug-trafficking sentencing-disparity sentencing-enhancement ussg-guidelines | 1. Did the district court err when it imposed a two-level sentencing enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2D1.1(b)(3)(C) where the Government failed to prov… |
| 24-6738 | Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop | 1. The Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that officers had reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry stop and frisk based on ambiguous and subjective… |
| 24-6694 | Emilio Santiago v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-decision career-offender criminal-procedure judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement | Should A Intervening Decision By A United States Court Of Appeals Invalidating A Defendant's Career Offender Enhancement Be Applied Retroactive? |
| 24-6567 | Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the four level enhancement to petitioner's sentencing range for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which… |
| 24-6396 | Ryan Perrin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | I. When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (AC… |
| 24-6312 | Tisheem Rich v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether "Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after" United States v. Taylor , 596 U.S. 845 (… |
| 24-6298 | Reyes Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-activity criminal-leadership participant-threshold sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines upward-adjustment | United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3Bl.l(a), provides: "If the defendant was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or mo… |
| 24-6306 | Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-history judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement shepard-documents supreme-court-precedent | In light of Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct 1840 (2024), was Petitioner Calixte properly sentenced as an armed career criminal where the district … |
| 24-6276 | Robert Anthony Zaccaro v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-facts | Whether there are any exceptions to a Defendant's right to a jury determination of any fact which raises his minimum or maximum sentence? |
| 24-6287 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction | Whether a district court may impose an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(2) based on a prior state conviction "relating to"… |
| 24-6202 | Kayne Russell Donath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | IFP | acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline | The district court increased Mr. Donath's sentence based upon his prior state of Iowa conviction for assault causing bodily injury or mental illness. … |
| 24-6192 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24-6186 | Vicente Alejo Andres, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. When a defendant sells drugs from his house at the same time he has a firearm in his house, is that enough to prove that he possessed the firearm "… |
| 24-6129 | In Re Jason Clark | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor? 2) Can the US Attorney p… | |
| 24-6077 | Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24-6062 | Efe Clinton Osaghae v. Kansas | Kansas | 2024-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… |
| 24-5996 | Todd Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-5880 | Eric Schmidt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24A423 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute … | |
| 24A387 | Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan | Michigan | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | alleyne-precedent criminal-sexual-conduct judicial-factfinding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5776 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… |
| 24A353 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession | Question not identified. | |
| 24A344 | Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability drug-trafficking ineffective-assistance jury-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-366 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, as several circuits have held, all Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors and subject to the harmless-error test from Neder… |
| 24-5535 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi… |
| 24-264 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) imposes an increased mandatory minimum and maximum sentence on a defendant who "has a prior conviction . . . under the laws of … | |
| 24-5484 | Irvin Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation | The First Circuit affirmed application of a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), based on Petitioner Irvin Abreu's prior state-court conv… |
| 24-5454 | Jesse Alaniz Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal felony-classification fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process texas-robbery | Whether the Court of Appeals and District Court erred in construing a 1987 Texas robbery conviction as a felony for purposes of Armed Career sentencin… |
| 24-5457 | Larome Deon Waiters v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 24-5427 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement | 1) Did the district court create a split in circuits by denying relief on charges —in the indictment that violated Congressional Intent/ where the D… |
| 24A184 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5339 | Seth Elred Perricone v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a defendant's criminal sentence on past conduct for which a jury had acquitted the… |
| 24-5329 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5330 | Xavier Daughtry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carjacking crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for federal carjacking, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2119, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under § 924(c)(8)(A) post-Borden. |
| 24-5316 | Kifano Jordan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner's conviction on Count Two depends on whether the attempted violation of New York's second-degree murder statute, N.Y.P.L. § 125.25(1), qual… |
| 24-5231 | Dean Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24A84 | Troy L. Fields v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-26 | Presumed Complete | criminal-episodes habitual-offender jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments required a jury to find that Mr. Fields's prior convictions were separately brought and tried and arose out of … | |
| 24A80 | Steven Cuellar v. Randy Grounds, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure due-process gang-enhancement juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 24A77 | Joseph Miller v. Thomas Lillard | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | career-offender collateral-review ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jones-v-hendrix sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5117 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing | A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U… |
| 24A66 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-error drug-felony harmless-error jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. This case concerns the standard of review for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a jury. The Sixth Amendment provides that, in all crimina… | |
| 24-5119 | Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process? II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5050 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 24A31 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5027 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states causation-of-harm criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidentiary-hearing federal-statute heroin-distribution jury-instruction jury-instructions overdose sentencing-enhancement | 1. Did the trial court err when it refused to instruct the jury that the heroin distributed by the defendant was the same heroin that caused the vict… |
| 23-7836 | Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7841 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents | 1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 23-7819 | LaShonda O'Neill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1). Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it failed to employ the Plain error analysis to review, de novo, the District Court's abuse … |
| 23A1167 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1154 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7772 | Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies | Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY? 730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,… |
| 23-7767 | In Re Jogaak Jogaak | 2024-06-20 | Denied | IFP | bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)? Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se… | |
| 23-7700 | Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-safety circuit-court civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process innocence-claim physical-abuse sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse | Did the Eighth Circuit Decision improperly deny defendant's Career offender Challenge by failing to consider he no longer qualifies for the enhancemen… |
| 23-7616 | Jacob Ray Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 23-7587 | Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-7564 | Ricky T. Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23-7542 | Anthony Obute v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement, which explicitly reserves the right to challenge the constitutionality of a statute… |
| 23-7477 | Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 23-7478 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to an indictment alleging all the elements necessary for conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and punishment up to 120 … |
| 23-7458 | In Re Michael David Hower | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes? Di… | |
| 23-7461 | Shane A. Fox v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty | I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-7439 | Basil Loud Hawk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7411 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7386 | Jose Caban v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23A983 | Robert Brumfield, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Presumed Complete | acquitted-conduct brady-violation criminal-procedure fifth-amendment sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7354 | Warren Baker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a predicate "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 23A979 | Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | crime-of-violence firearms-statute predicate-offense racketeering rico sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7345 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-30 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d… |
| 23-7287 | Khan Mohammed v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-conflict clear-and-convincing-evidence law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case-doctrine preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | 1. Whether the Government may be required to prove the factual basis for a sentencing enhancement by clear and convincing evidence, rather than a prep… |
| 23-7297 | Marcus Bennett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7243 | Nathaniel Blayn Becker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process explosive-devices mental-illness obstruction-of-justice psychotic-disorder right-to-testify sentencing-enhancement trial-testimony | 1. Whether the obstruction of justice enhancement for "false" trial testimony by the defendant violates the right to testify when the court did not ma… |
| 23-7207 | Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 0. 4he \ri &{ Cowri CammiM&c/ ernoTT clet^jfirg 4^ie. doferrs^. reaue*& -fe 'OSinW^( ne^ass^^ even Ahe^ um% Som© iq <Jrta4 'C&cmxl rg £>U4^Yve:wl, ^ir… |
| 23-7190 | Trivansky Swington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-7182 | Jonathan Wray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-7144 | Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-7055 | Jacob Lyon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver | 1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23-6969 | James Paul Antonio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6950 | Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc… |
| 23-6899 | James Earl Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 | 1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that Mr. Robinson's prior state conviction… |
| 23-6849 | Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6854 | Danny Lee Hampton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-6837 | David Carbonaro v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images? II. Whether the C… |
| 23-918 | Ranito Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical … |
| 23-6808 | Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6786 | Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6770 | Juan Carlos Burns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 23-884 | Marco Antonio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm… |
| 23-6748 | Eric Lavell Minter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s… |
| 23-6686 | Clarence Lee Davis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2255(f)(3) armed-career-criminal attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-violence davis-v-united-states federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | In a proceeding timely filed under 28 U.S.C. 2255(f)(3) does Attempted Armed Bank Robbery qualify as a crime of violence under 924(c)'s residual claus… |
| 23-6692 | Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement | I. Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may b… |
| 23A726 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6656 | Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-6631 | Jeremy Dale Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committe… |
| 23-6612 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6615 | Jason James Veal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | After this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022) which held that attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence und… |
| 23-6579 | Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | L. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug s… |
| 23-6524 | Lynn Richard Norton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | (1) Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.E… |
| 23-6514 | Tiffany Janis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-6498 | Kevin Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23-6474 | Courtney Rose Desjarlais v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, a defendant in a criminal case has the right to confront adverse witnesses against her… |
| 23-6435 | Norman Williams v. Colorado Department of Corrections Time Computation Department, et al. | Colorado | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | colorado-dept-of-corrections conviction-classification criminal-procedure due-process non-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement time-computation violent-crime | 1) In light of this Court's holdings in Johnson v. U.S 135 S. Ct. 2551, 2563 (2015), does § 17-22.5-403 C.R.S. violate Mr. Williams' and other similar… |
| 23-6411 | Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6412 | Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6377 | Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review | Florida | 2023-12-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | \ x \t> ^c&kvVflVtOYN o^aaVn^V CbvJoW, ^ Torres o-f CoAt^WA0*V\\ \mrNUsmVv^ lA SecuT^A GlAAaAQV SVc3e_ acAc/v^s Uvyier -Wul \A^ /WW^er^'s or \ 0Ar-\iA… |
| 23-6392 | Phillip Watkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by affirming the district court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regar… |
| 23A590 | Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-685 | Devaughn Dorsey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tamperi… |
| 23-6340 | Christopher Stowell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial occasions-clause prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committe… |
| 23-6259 | Bryan Lee Ogle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction most-innocent-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tennessee-statute violent-felony | Whether the district court erred in applying an enhanced sentence, pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), to Mr. Ogle at sente… |
| 23-6263 | Freddy Abad v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis | 1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that they were; un… |
| 23A544 | Patrick Aboite v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | 18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23A547 | Eric Lavell Minter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Where a district court applies a federal sentencing enhancement based on findings of fact at sentencing—and neglects to explain how it selected among … | |
| 23-6166 | Moses Moreira v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-notes criminal-activity criminal-assets fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-precedent manager-status participant-supervision sentencing-enhancement subordinate-participant supervision u-s-sentencing-guidelines | U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 provides a sentencing enhancement for a defendant's status as a "manager or supervisor" of certain criminal activity. Under the Appli… |
| 23-584 | Robert R. Snyder v. California | California | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement armed-intent constitutional-vagueness due-process eighth-amendment legislative-intent penal-code rosemond-substantive-holding second-amendment sentencing-enhancement standardless-legislation vagueness | • Should California Penal Code § 12022.53 be struck down and voided as vague and standardless legislation? Does petitioner's conviction serve as an ex… |
| 23-6148 | Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue | I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri… |
| 23-6131 | Eliseo Vaquerano Canas v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-agency administrative-law congressional-directive sentencing-commission sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-authority statutory-interpretation use-of-a-minor use-of-minor-enhancement | I. Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the "Use of a Minor" sentencing enhan… |
| 23-6121 | Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23-6054 | In Re Christopher Thieme | 2023-11-20 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-violation double-counting double-jeopardy due-process grouping multiple-punishment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does the application of a four-level sentencing enhancement under United States Sentencing Guideline § 2A1.5(b)(1) to the sentence calculation of a de… | |
| 23-6038 | Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt minimum-and-maximum-sentences prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed … |
| 23-6039 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-6011 | Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-6005 | Ehab Sadeek v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden | In the admitted absence of established circuit precedent, was it plain error for the appellate court to affirm Petitioner's 405-month sentence based o… |
| 23-5998 | Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute | 1) Dio-me coiviTiTaT| 0NjA| An1cj SHoujcJ debATE that pOfSOAMT 6o3.^i A KidEIGHTH c\rco\T demV thepET\T\ofNicr /\ Err uh^THE peTiiioiOcr OKi A COA 7… |
| 23-5942 | Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-5925 | Isaac Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver | Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons… |
| 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? |
| 23A362 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2023-10-23 | Denied | constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5812 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-5791 | John Sherman Jumper v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing disgorgement double-jeopardy fifth-amendment kokesh-precedent kokesh-v-sec sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN KOKESH V. SEC. WHICH HELD THAT DISGORGEMENT IS A PENALTY, PRECLUDES EITHER THE IMPOSITION OF A CRIMINAL SENTENCE IN IT… |
| 23-370 | Paul Erlinger v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committed on occ… |
| 23-5665 | Shajuan Orlando Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-5666 | Jeremy Aswegan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review | I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT? II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN… |
| 23-5640 | Blake Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether attempted bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and attempted armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), are "crimes of violence" as defined in 18 … |
| 23-5604 | Ernesto Ordunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-5606 | Samuel Valencia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on … |
| 23-219 | Sherman Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… | |
| 23-5522 | Javier Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t… |
| 23-5457 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-28 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty | May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5434 | Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o… |
| 23-5397 | Emanuel Beach v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23A145 | Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography due-process inadmissible-evidence indictment-deficiency notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5309 | Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-5310 | Joseph Tyshawn Darren Favorite v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion police-report sentencing-enhancement uncorroborated-accusation | May the Court rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is not par… |
| 23-5290 | Littleton William Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(c) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5226 | Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states | I. 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… |
| 23-5208 | Jason Boudreau v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio… |
| 23-5194 | Andra Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5140 | Ralph Castillo v. Richard Martinez, Warden, et al. | New Mexico | 2023-07-19 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances criminal-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment | 1. Was it proper for the State to intentionally mislead the court when it required that petitioner show the presumption of equality when the real issu… |
| 23-5102 | Taiwo K. Onamuti v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a 18-usc-287 aggravated-identity-theft counsel-advice criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plenary-resentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Can an original guilty plea be completely knowing and voluntary, when the government, and the district court wrongly advised defendant about couns… |
| 23-5072 | Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-5081 | Ronnie R. Lovell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred "on occasions different," as required by the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 23-5085 | Andre Rene Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial | Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp… |
| 23-5055 | Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-5036 | Brandon Mason v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-7894 | Frankie Shearry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7898 | Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7903 | Denvy Hoffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7773 | Belkis Soca-Fernandez, et al. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | check-and-balance civil-rights conspiracy-statute constitutional-protection due-process interstate-commerce judicial-administration judicial-review law-of-the-case legal-inconsistency sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers | I. Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of t… |
| 22-7763 | Michael Aaron Stuker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force witness-tampering | Whether witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(2)(A) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where no eleme… |
| 22-7675 | Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7638 | Jesus Mendez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" capable of sustaining a conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7630 | Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | 1. This Court has granted certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640, and Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389, and consolidated the cases. Th… |
| 22-7527 | Adam Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7458 | Roger Wayne Battle v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7461 | Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | I Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i… |
| 22-7465 | Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden | South Dakota | 2023-05-04 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony | Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does… |
| 22-7439 | Julio Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals important question of … |
| 22-7358 | In Re Ronnie Dante Thomas | 2023-04-24 | Denied | IFP | collateral-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-adjudication procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | IS The U.S. Court of Appeals for The Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") Application of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)'s Procedural Bar To a Collateral Challenge … | |
| 22-7310 | Antonio Minnis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | This Court in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 80 L.Ed.2d 674, 104 S.Ct. 2052 (1984), laid the foundation for the gauging of ineffective assis… |
| 22-7245 | Paul DiBiase v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal due-process plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony waiver-of-rights | Petitioner was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) over his protests that he did not have three prior violent felony convictions as required f… |
| 22-7194 | Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor | I. Is the reasoning of Taylor irrelevant to deciding whether an overbroad state crime qualifies as an ACCA predicate, as the Sixth Circuit held below?… |
| 22-947 | Tyler G. Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "co… |
| 22-7065 | Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | i. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially? ii. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7037 | Mario Albert Villegas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 advisory-sentencing-guidelines constitutional-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-procedure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington u-s-c-section-851 | Whether defense counsel's failure to advise a client of increased sentencing exposure under 21 U.S.C. § 851, and failure to correctly calculate the ad… |
| 22-7012 | Lionel Jericho McCoy v. California | California | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document common-law common-law-pleading criminal-charging due-process first-degree-murder notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the 1883 rule set forth in People v. Soto, 63 Cal. 165 (1883) — that facts which expose a defendant to increased punishment need not be charged i… |
| 22-7009 | Davion Smith v. California | California | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the gr… |
| 22-6925 | Gregory Allen Cook v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-factfinding sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 22-6902 | Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6881 | James Clark, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6829 | Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes | In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6843 | Edgar Barrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-6791 | Jerome Simmons v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy elements-clause fifth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine | Whether a sentence predicated upon a finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C § 924 (c) violates th… |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 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… |
| 22-6682 | Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-6658 | Wade Bonk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi… |
| 22-707 | Barry J. Cadden v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse… |
| 22-6640 | Eugene Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-6597 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent | Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 22-6566 | Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit… |
| 22-656 | Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-6540 | Brandon Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6520 | Tiffany Franklin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller | This is a case of first impression of whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault te… |
| 22-6497 | Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-6466 | Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-6468 | Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Question not identified. |
| 22-6444 | Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a conviction for federal "second degree murder" under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 22-6450 | Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i… |
| 22-6389 | Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6374 | Damian Perry v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-circuit same-offense sentencing-enhancement successive-punishments | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the application of Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution therefore removing any practi… |
| 22-6318 | Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6228 | Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-6216 | Jonny Shineflew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6130 | Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6132 | Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6095 | Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction | Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-6072 | Randy Belcher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6051 | Arriba Lewis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Petitioner Lewis' ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by a Motion to Quash and Suppress and failing to c… |
| 22-6022 | Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-5902 | Monica Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5893 | Christopher Tavaris Dean v. Florida | Florida | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-exception apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-clause prior-record-exception prison-releasee-reoffender sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment state-prison | Florida enhances the sentences for certain offenses —making the statutory maximum sentence also the statutory minimum sentence —if the defendant is a … |
| 22-5877 | Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5836 | Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond | 1. Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) is valid in light of … |
| 22-5833 | Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Eifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a four-level increase in sentencing point… |
| 22-336 | Jason Reed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-10-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "co… |
| 22-5720 | Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco… |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced punishment o… |
| 22-5593 | Richard Anthony Rodriguez v. California | California | 2022-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | Can juvenile adjudications, obtained without a trial by jury, be relied upon to enhance a defendant's sentence in a later proceeding? Thus, the quest… |
| 22-5575 | Ronald Mickel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 22-5569 | Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 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 | 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… |
| 22-5440 | Joseph Griego v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor | Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem… |
| 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… |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5369 | Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement | 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r… |
| 22-5338 | Chikosi Legins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency | I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001. II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5284 | Michael Duntae Fagans v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial | 1) Whether Fagans is entitled te relief evidentiary hearing , uhere the Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District of the Eastern Distric… |
| 22-5273 | Bradley Beauchamp v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation | 1. Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articul… |
| 22-5252 | Carlos Fleitas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari | When a defendant's sentence is enhanced based a non-experts testimony should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3) … |
| 22-5102 | Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an… |
| 22-5062 | Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden | Third Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5043 | Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice | Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920) was broadened in 2006 to include crimes of "indecent acts." Article 120 was ream… |
| 22-5020 | Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement | A year after he was discharged from the Army with a disability pension following brain, spinal, and psychological injuries from a scud missel attack w… |
| 22-5002 | Richard Winn v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-925 armed-career-criminal constructive-possession criminal-firearms sentencing-enhancement shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation third-circuit | The first question presented is whether or not the Petitioner, RICHARD WINN, should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA) requiring t… |
| 21-8199 | Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur | Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8191 | Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-8152 | Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8127 | Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 21-8077 | Duane Yates v. Iowa | Iowa | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | 1. Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay under Iowa Code 910 at the time of his convi… |
| 21-8062 | Bryant Love v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation violent-felony | When applying the categorical and modified categorical approach sentencing courts are instructed to use a states statutory definition df it's elements… |
| 21-8051 | Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-7992 | Reginald Andre Molette v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7878 | Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | When receiving a reduced sentence in 2020 for a crack-cocaine offense under the First Step Act, Petitioner Mitchell asked the district court to find h… |
| 21-7835 | Michael Perryman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7773 | Eric Middlebrook v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for… |
| 21-1409 | Prince Bixler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated by a pretrial ruling that he could not… |
| 21-7702 | Marvin Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit" or "Appellate Court")–which affirmed the decision of… |
| 21-7574 | Danyel Black v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 21-7549 | Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7526 | Adam C. Morris v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement interrogatory-issue jury-instructions material-fact material-facts right-to-jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure verdict-control | 1) DID THE COURT AVOID CONSIDER THE ARGUMENT THAT THE SEPARATE GROUND INTERROGATORY IS AN ISSUE OF MATERIAL FACT AND THAT THE JURY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE IN… |
| 21-7483 | Ruben Aguilera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure criminal-statute-interpretation divisibility fifth-circuit-interpretation generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute | 1. Can the Texas burglary statute — which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible and descriptive of generic burglary — properly be the basis for… |
| 21-7451 | Michael Shawn Bell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7428 | Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7430 | Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 21-7393 | Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment | Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2… |
| 21-7333 | Andrew Michael Penny v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony | To decide whether a prior burglary conviction qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), "courts… |
| 21-7266 | Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction ne… |
| 21-7223 | Angel DeLara v. California | California | 2022-02-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 21-7226 | Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | () Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7158 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7119 | Victor Carlos Castano v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an… |
| 21-7126 | Quincy Deshan Butler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-offense constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plain-error-review procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement texas-law | 1). Wither CjLrVihczJre- APPEALA&XAXTy SHoul D 1W^ GrtAuTtml 3L). WHETHER Due 1WE5S WAS V/I<d(At6D Wfetf Cj)UKlS£L Fazlejs to te&jLEST LESSE/X TWELU… |
| 21-7088 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), and aiding and abetting a Hobb… |
| 21-7069 | Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-7006 | Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 21-6968 | Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state | 1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U… |
| 21-6969 | Alton Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines booker circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing guideline-enhancement lapsed-statute legal-interpretation mandatory-guidelines sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's enhancement of Defendant's sentence under a provision of U.S.S.G. § 2K… |
| 21-6929 | Rozelle Summerise v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) … |
| 21-6894 | Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111 (a) AND (b) QUALIFIE… |
| 21-6858 | Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851 922(g) 922(g)-conviction acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender first-step-act government-concession rehaif sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | 1. In light of the Court& Government concessions(twice ) that the petitioner never servedover a year,should the ACCA,851 removed in wake of theand Ca… |
| 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 … |
| 21-6760 | Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation | I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-6749 | Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty | May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding … |
| 21-6750 | Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two… |
| 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 | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6614 | Mario Martell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering | 1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6592 | Donald Stanley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6605 | Jermaine Jackson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 21-6534 | Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie… |
| 21-6552 | Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement | 1. WHETHER AN UNLAWFUL APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT PURSUANT TO TITLE 21 U.S.C. 851 AMOUNT'S TO A FUNDAMENTAL MISSCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. WHEREAS THE PE… |
| 21-6514 | Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B… |
| 21-6524 | Joshua James Mjoness v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-829 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 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 | 1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6450 | Steven Zinnel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6355 | Everett Earl Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-felony | Whether, under the Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 shou… |
| 21-6332 | Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | A SPLIT EXISTS IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS REGARDING THE GRANTING BUYER-SELLER INSTRUCTION IN THE TRIAL OF FEDERAL CONSPIRACY AND DISTRIBUTION CASES. PE… |
| 21-6320 | Devon Carl Jordan-McFeely v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguous-statute criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-inquiry federal-court federal-sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement state-court state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-ambiguity supreme-court-precedent | When a state statute is ambiguous as to its divisibility at the time of the defendant's state conviction, may a federal court certify the divisibility… |
| 21-6268 | Cesar Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which the jury acquitted him violates his rights to due process and … |
| 21-6232 | Jason Stallcup v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 21-6229 | Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. California | California | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi charging-document criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirements sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the 1936 rule set forth in People v Britton , 6 Cal.2d 1 -- that facts which expose a defendant to substantially enhanced punishment need n… |
| 21-6231 | Christopher Lee Scott v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
| 21-6201 | Reginald Kindle v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
| 21-6210 | Tony Bowen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum | 1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6204 | Antonio A. Tankes v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment free-speech retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement standing | Question not identified. |
| 21-6176 | Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), falls outside the definition o… |
| 21-6182 | Erick Argueta Larios v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-623 | Anthony Penton v. A. Malfi, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | brady-evidence brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence | 1. Whether evidence covered by Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and withheld by prosecutors is considered suppressed under the Fifth Amendment r… |
| 21-6076 | Lukeen Gerald v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C § 1951 (a) remains a predicate crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C § 924(c) under the elements clause after… |
| 21-6106 | Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement | Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh … |
| 21-5982 | Marcus Matthews v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a … |
| 21-555 | Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas | Kansas | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated when a State supreme court refuses to enforce its legislature's … |
| 21-5975 | Modesto Balderas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony | Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-5873 | Justin Douglas Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence federal-prisoner hobbs-act ninth-circuit physical-force sentencing-enhancement | Should the Ninth Circuit have issued a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualified as a "crime of … |
| 21-5790 | Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a "crime of violence," unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-5772 | Charles Eason v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation | I. When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ? II. If… |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5754 | Cedrin Farodd Carter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is a different-occasions finding, like other ACCA determinations about prior convictions, confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior convict… |
| 21-5727 | Frank Cisneros v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-defense criminal-procedure federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations withdrawal | (1) Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable st… |
| 21-5664 | Maurice L. Ross v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 24(c), since the elements of Hobbs Act robbery, especially atte… |
| 21-5650 | Carl Richard Samson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-13 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-5644 | Michael Hall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3a actus-reus aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-statute force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-physical-force | Aiding and Abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violen… |
| 21-386 | Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-09 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 21-5595 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND (B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-5615 | Carlos Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Where counsel raised an issue in written Objections to the Addendum to the Presentence Report filed with the district court, and never withdrew or … |
| 21-5586 | Tyrone Simmons v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-07 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act motion-to-vacate sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery meets the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-5548 | Brent Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight | I. Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for "reckless endangerment during flight" after already applying a 4-level… |
| 21-5511 | Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | IFP | alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5518 | John Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop | I. Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of "… |
| 21-5490 | Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure deadly-weapon direct-appeal due-process guilty-plea intoxication plea-agreement retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | ©Can a trial Court mm a rd/dof /) Deadly UJEAPOU ? TART OJfiS A/qT STIPULATED XU THE' PLEA) AQREEMEHT ? ® "-'S£ '" to-nm umi& smessumm fS\ nnp pjEnj… |
| 21-5503 | Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5477 | Clifford Senter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5386 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5326 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a). |
| 21-102 | Marcus Walker v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-26 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-5156 | Montarius Montrael Shabazz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level plea-agreement record-support sentencing-enhancement subsequent-possession unrelated-possession | Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor supported a sentencing enhancement to substantially increase the Base Offense Level… |
| 21-5142 | Michael Angelo Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5028 | David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 21-5013 | Arnold Council v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 21-5016 | Salvador Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5021 | Michael Ray Senn v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 20-8421 | Braulio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony | 1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied? 2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8432 | Robert L. Garza v. Donald Kleine, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Does a judge exceed his legal authority by making factual findings by a preponderance of the evidence which expose a defendant to the elevated upper t… |
| 20-8342 | John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | The overall issue is whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability. The underlying issue is whether Mr. Johnso… |
| 20-8295 | Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-8228 | John Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery? 2. Did the district court err in denying sup… |
| 20-8217 | Donald R. Turner, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance just-compensation mandatory-minimum private-property procedural-error sentencing-enhancement takings | 1. WHETHER DEFENDANTS RECEIVED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING SENTENCING IN WHICH COUNSEL FAILED TO BRIEF OR PRESERVE THE SUPREME COURT'S RULI… |
| 20-8219 | Clark D. Young v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | (1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history? (2) was the… |
| 20-8039 | Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-1581 | Malia Arciero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether this Court holding in Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), is still good law, and if so, whether Arciero is entitled to relief due to defens… |
| 20-8019 | Roberto Torner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline purposes. |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7961 | Antonio Olmeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts, § 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession" of that firearm is multiplicitou… |
| 20-7950 | Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-7943 | Tyquez Ursery v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony | 1. Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burgl… |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | I. In the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection, where no trial objection was made but the error was … |
| 20-7825 | Carlon McGinn v. Kansas | Kansas | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Petitioner's 'OUT OF STATE' crime 'IS NOT' Defined under Kansas State Statutes and used to Enhance His Sentence based on the Determinations of a Judge… |
| 20-1459 | United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7705 | Marco Antonio Serrano v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver career-offender district-court-error due-process mandatory-application plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Can a plea agreement that includes an appellate waiver lawfully deprive a defendant of his right to appeal a sentence that was based on the distric… |
| 20-7610 | Jose Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because… |
| 20-7476 | Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement | Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7394 | Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-7273 | Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | iOhLtbtr flu pr&seci&.t'ofa thctcjfd to cl, dtftndanf that- he lO&tL'ld. rectrVe. h'-ft 5-cofence (f ht d:d not accept cl p{tQ_ tf-f fer cLto (td. h<… |
| 20-7244 | Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a "crime of violence" within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(a). |
| 20-7223 | Angelo C. Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery crime-of-violence davis-precedent federal-criminal-law force-and-violence intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7161 | Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-02-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | CAN A PLEA DEAL CONSISTING OF TWO (2) MISDEMEANOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES BE WITHDREW POST SENTENCE, WHEN; (1 ) NO DIRECT APPEAL WAS TAKEN; (2) SAID… |
| 20-7120 | Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense | 1. Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act when it can be committed withou… |
| 20-7076 | Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence … |
| 20-7081 | Nijul Quadir Alexander v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence element-clause general-intent intimidation sentencing-enhancement | Did the Third Circuit err in holding that "Federal Bank Robbery is a Crime of Violence under the Element Clause of 18 U-S.C. §924(c )(3)( A) of this C… |
| 20-7057 | Romario Waller v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Did the Trial Judge in case no 1995-CR-545 violate Petitioner 's 5th, 6th, 14th , Amendment rights when he sentenced Petitioner to a more than 20%… |
| 20-7007 | Vernon Allen Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing | I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ADOPTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DISPOSITIVE PROCEDURAL CONCLUSIONS ERRED IN HOLDING COLONS HAD FAILED TO PROVE ARTICLE … |
| 20-6978 | Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-6976 | Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-6925 | Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury. |
| 20-6909 | Brian Gale v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | "WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… |
| 20-6794 | Oscar Guevara Salamanca v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing illegal-reentry judicial-discretion prior-conviction revocation-of-probation right-to-be-heard sentencing-enhancement state-sentencing | The state of South Carolina provided Oscar Guevara Salamanca no notice of the date, location, or time of a hearing to revoke his probation. Then, in h… |
| 20-6742 | Edward Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime | WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-6726 | Jamie Betances v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure factual-objections guilty-plea legal-arguments plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Did the lower court err in denying Jamie Betances acceptance of responsibility, under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, after Mr. Betances pleaded guilty, accepted th… |
| 20-6659 | Eddie Ashley v. California, et al. | California | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-law california-supreme-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | Does Petitioner had a Federal Due Process Right to the Prohibition of the Imposition of Two Different Sentencing Enhancements, per the California Supr… |
| 20-6640 | James David Perryman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6540 | Joshua N. Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance | 1. Whether the district court erred in its "crime of violence" instruction to the jury. 2. Whether the district court erred in assessing an enhanceme… |
| 20-6459 | David Lee Garrett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony | I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons… |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… |
| 20-6448 | Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden | Third Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq… |
| 20-6450 | Lee Yerkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt | Does Georgia burglary qualify as "generic burglary" under the ACCA? |
| 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 | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CLASSIFYING MR. GRIFFIN AS AN ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL WHERE HIS PRIOR CONVICTIONS DID NOT QUALIFY AS "SERIOUS DRU… |
| 20-6326 | Adam Donald Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law | I. Is a Texas deferred adjudication a "prior conviction" for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? II. Does the Texas crime … |
| 20-6337 | Tramaine Standberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance | 1. Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional? 2. Was the district court's upward varia… |
| 20-6301 | Alfornia Jason Wall, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-state-interaction recidivism sentencing-enhancement state-law | Question not identified. |
| 20-6272 | Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-6189 | Francisco Javier Nunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment base-offense-level constructive-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearm firearm-enhancement scienter sentencing-enhancement substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment in this constructive poss… |
| 20-6153 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 20-6084 | Laron J. Wainwright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Most circuits agree that when increasing a defendant's sentence beyond the normal statutory maximum pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), … |
| 20-6088 | Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 20-6054 | Alex Cori Tribue v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process notice notice-requirement prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different conviction that it did … |
| 20-6022 | Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement | This case presents a clear circuit split over whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when, after an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) pr… |
| 20-5926 | Rolando Candia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law intimidation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be violated by means of "intimidation" through threats of mental or non-corporeal … |
| 20-5910 | Robert Coleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. What Conateude celevank Conduck 2° Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha… |
| 20-5871 | Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5861 | Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense | IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-5832 | Damon Graham v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search | 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused it's discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appeal… |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a … |
| 20-5733 | Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | (1) Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is categorica… |
| 20-5730 | Jimmie Butler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review | I. The district court improperly designated Mr. Butler as a career offender, and this was not harmless error. The district court made a rote, less tha… |
| 20-5743 | Johnny Melendez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
| 20-5672 | David Kareem Turpin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-5636 | Miguel Figueroa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5650 | Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms… |
| 20-302 | Steven Dotson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review predicate-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation substitute-predicate-convictions | If a defendant successfully challenges on collateral review one or more of the predicate convictions that the district court relied on to impose a sen… |
| 20-5622 | Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment | A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
| 20-5628 | Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 20-5614 | Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness | Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-5528 | Miguel Romero v. California | California | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence… |
| 20-5578 | Steven Gerard Walker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-5537 | Anderson Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony | At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar… |
| 20-5515 | In Re Tracey A. Merrill | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit pleadings predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | IS THIS A DISTORTION OF JUSTICE WAS EXTREME MALICE DISPLAYED IN THIS CASE | |
| 20-5457 | Dennis A. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5404 | Jermaine Isaac Ross v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-elemental-facts prior-offenses rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | 1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-5384 | Jerome Nathan Grant v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-court-review pro-se-petition right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-5396 | Austin Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be committed "by force and violence, or by intimidation... or... by extortion" and… |
| 20-5321 | Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-136 | Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… | |
| 20-5197 | Lamar Moore, aka Kane v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-status criminal-penalties due-process factual-findings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-waiver second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | 1) Shouldn't Moore's Plea and conviction under Count one be Vackted in light of Rehaif V.united states, 139 s.ct.2191 (2o1), Where the indictment fail… |
| 20-5157 | Denard Stokeling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th… |
| 20-5135 | James Bowell v. State Bar of California | California | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 20-5144 | Rykeith Andre Levatte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether, categorically, aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) elements clause, 18 U… |
| 20-5108 | Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. … |
| 20-5019 | Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 19-8923 | Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error | I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg… |
| 19-1465 | Robert Marcelis v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure increased-sentence jury-finding jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the sixth amendment require a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt that a criminal defendant has one or more prior convictions before an increa… |
| 19-8899 | Michael Wayne Blanche v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law jury-finding jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). Whether the verdict and 7-year sentence on the … |
| 19-8884 | Samuel Gray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-8825 | Edgardo Navarro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure indictment notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a sentencing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior co… |
| 19-8837 | Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi… |
| 19-8788 | Travis Job v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum | Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which provides an exception to the rule of A… |
| 19-8770 | Carl St. Preux v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations | As such, the question presented here is whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e), which clearly applies at and during federal sentencing proceedings, usurps and sup… |
| 19-8783 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 19-8755 | Levi West v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-8694 | Joseph D. Rouse v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1365 | Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-8597 | Lewis McKenzie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 19-8573 | David Konepachit v. California | California | 2020-05-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement | DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA… |
| 19-8559 | Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8544 | Hubert Carter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8508 | Javier Villar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule managerial-role motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement standing u-s-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether the District Court and the Court of Appeals erred in denying the Defendant's motion to suppress evidence located in the Appellant's reside… |
| 19-8489 | Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | #1. Does a Juvenile Conviction for "Possession" of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement when 18 U.S.… |
| 19-8478 | John King v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE? AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-1293 | Michael Ludwikowski v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic… |
| 19-8469 | Viengxay Chantharath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes: 21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI. con victions that qua… |
| 19-8400 | Roy Allen Nichols v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 19-8342 | Dearieus Duheart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence? |
| 19-8312 | Lazaro Candelaria v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation | 1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion. 2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff… |
| 19-8302 | Richard H. Morrison v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-19 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process habitual-offender hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-notice preponderance-of-evidence prison-release-reoffender sentencing-enhancement | It is true the state has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant qualifies as a PRR as defined in the statute Flor… |
| 19-8188 | Anthony Wayne Hamilton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence hobbs-act ninth-circuit-conflict physical-confrontation sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-florida | 1. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery, which statutorily can be committed by a threat of future harm, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18… |
| 19-8111 | Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i… |
| 19-8049 | Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-8053 | Daniel Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law hobbs-act property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (b) is categorically a "crime of violence" as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(3)(A) , if the plain … |
| 19-8030 | Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-7961 | Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7962 | Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement | APPEALA c CO Ai ) PfcTLTtkrLlER S£ERTtfl.Ci\T£ OfRested ££>uari _V o/u q me puE«>Tio iu ; UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi 1*182. PRIOR… |
| 19-7878 | Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation | Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7879 | Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Is first degree murder, as broadly and idiosyncratically defined under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code: (a) included in the category of "murder" as… |
| 19-7869 | Raymond David Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt. LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7855 | Jeremy T. Walker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession material-facts obstruction offense-level-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-obliteration | Whether the district court erred at sentencing by increasing Mr. Walker's Sentencing Guidelines offense level for possessing a gun with an obliterated… |
| 19-7794 | Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION … |
| 19-7781 | John Charles Fortner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7776 | Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7705 | Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver | 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case… |
| 19-7677 | Sandchase Cody v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-7635 | Timothy Courtney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7617 | Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement | I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily … |
| 19-7548 | Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-7531 | Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? 2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-7514 | Ekanem Kurfreobon Essien v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-street-gang due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement street-terrorism-enforcement-and-prevention-act sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it denied petitioner Ekanem Kufreobon Essien's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition based on its conclusion that his … |
| 19-7516 | Mary Mosley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O… |
| 19-7420 | In Re Adrean Francis | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | QUESTION ONE: Whether the continued application of a vacated New York "Youthful Offender" conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separ… | |
| 19-7404 | Joseph James Roe v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) | Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 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 the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-7335 | Chad Prodoehl v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation | As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7341 | Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7305 | William James Springer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-possession constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-possession foreseeability jointly-undertaken-activity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant's sentence can be enhanced under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) for possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense … |
| 19-7324 | Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7294 | Mohammed Kwaning v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's (a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7298 | James Lee Bell v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r… |
| 19-7271 | Eric Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of… |
| 19-7260 | Darin Kaufmann v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7251 | William McNeal v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-7207 | Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea | Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-7178 | Tracy Jarvis Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-precedent johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states robbery sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment south-carolina standard-of-review | Whether oJL not the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under th… |
| 19-7113 | Raynard Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… |
| 19-7115 | Alexander Faulkner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-824 | Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility | In the decade since this Court ruled in Washington v. Recuenco, 548 U.S. 212 (2006), that errors under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), can… |
| 19-7083 | Leroy L. Perdue v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b). 2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7072 | Tyrone Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states | 1. Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). 2. Whether H… |
| 19-7078 | Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i). |
| 19-7057 | Johnny L. Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 19-7042 | Christian Rosado v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-7044 | Darmarcus Fisher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-7045 | Michael Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense | In Shular v. United States, 18-6662, this Court granted certiorari to resolve whether "the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed C… |
| 19-6979 | Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… |
| 19-6904 | Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6906 | Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)? Whether t… |
| 19-6884 | Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6800 | Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery is a "violent felony " under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? Subsidiary question:… |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6752 | Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness curtis-johnson curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause physical-force samuel-johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement stokeling stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a 15–year mandatory minimum sentence on any § 922(g) offender convicted of at least three qualifying pred… |
| 19-6720 | James Dwayne Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6707 | Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s FORCE CLAUSE requires the use of "physical force" (i.e: "violence force" meaning "force capable of causing PHYsICAL in Dima… |
| 19-6638 | Yannier Arias v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel | 1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel. 2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting … |
| 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 | The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 19-6703 | Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is... remand required i… |
| 19-6673 | Lashon Browning v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6678 | Joseph Van Sach v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 | Tony Lipscomb v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6664 | Steven Klikno v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6661 | Jean Bernier, aka Charles Watson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-encroachment congressional-intent general-savings-clause habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation judicial-powers mandate-recall sentencing-enhancement separation-of-powers statutory-clarification statutory-interpretation | A. IS THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION-OF-POWERS , WHICH PROHIBITS WJUDTGIAL ENCROACHMENT ON THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF CONGRESS TO MAKE LAWS, VIOLATED, WHEN… |
| 19-6662 | Shane E. Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation | Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-612 | Hassan Abpikar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment | 1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-6521 | Marcus T. Simmons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6525 | Sean Trent Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement | The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I. or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus tody as a federal… |
| 19-6485 | Ryan Van Stevenson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver criminal-procedure discretion due-process due-process,appellate-waiver,abuse-of-discretion,s evidence-standard extrinsic-evidence judicial-discretion preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-enhancement | Did the Court abuse it's discretion when it enforced an appellate waiver on an issue that was outside the scope of the appellate waiver's provisions? … |
| 19-6491 | Matthew Shaffer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing | 1. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO CONDUCT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING CONCERNING THE AFFIDAVIT RELIED UPON IN OBTAINING THE SEARCH WARRANT AND FURTHER… |
| 19-6466 | Eric Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… |
| 19-6420 | Christopher Mark Heath v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-6363 | David Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6322 | Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors | 1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6299 | Victor Lopez v. Sterling Correctional Facility, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit appeals case-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus imprisonment ineffective-assistance innocence judicial-review sentencing-enhancement substantial-innocence | Whether Mr Lopez should be in prison on a case that the 1OTH Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismis sing 3 cases that were … |
| 19-6256 | Jason Simon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta… |
| 19-6264 | Orane Nelson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6115 | Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law | Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-6116 | Ronald E. Evans v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation generic-burglary north-carolina north-carolina-burglary north-carolina-statute second-degree-burglary sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation trailers | Whether North Carolina second degree burglary (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-51), which encompasses unlawful entries into trailers used to store property, is c… |
| 19-6078 | Terreall McDaniel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6037 | John Anzures v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach commercial-burglary generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause sentencing-enhancement stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states | When a Johnson petitioner would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, is it right to endorse the Tenth Circuit's "relevant legal backgro… |
| 19-6019 | Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond | 1. Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? Su… |
| 19-5976 | Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5928 | Marcos Santiago v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5923 | Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5924 | James Hennessee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-5813 | Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5738 | Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 | I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the … |
| 19-5757 | Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement | 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate… |
| 19-5589 | Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-5413 | John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction | Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti… |
| 19-5309 | William Dante Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5308 | Oscar Minaya v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that the Court has now answered in United States v. Davis… |
| 19-5310 | Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment | Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat… |
| 19-5312 | Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime | Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 19-5236 | Seab Nolen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession | Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-5194 | Edward Hector v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5183 | Miguel Grado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5196 | Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-5150 | Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-5110 | Barry Bays v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 19-39 | Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution | 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of M… |
| 19-5043 | Justin Panus v. Texas | Texas | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of on offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-5070 | Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 19-5024 | William Thrower v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-based-inquiry elements-clause new-york-penal-law realistic-probability-test robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Subdivision 1 of New York's Penal Law § 70.02 lists by class (from Class B to Class E) all Penal Law offenses defined as "violent felony" offenses; su… |
| 18-9789 | Dan Pizarro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum | Because Pizarro is still in the direct appeal process, is he entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sen… |
| 18-9760 | Andrew D. Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18A1315 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9705 | Leonard Moore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9725 | Jose Munoz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness | Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a… |
| 18-9703 | Milton Terry Kelton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S… |
| 18-9691 | Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error | Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9653 | Todd Ricks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9664 | Lilron Ravon Jones v. California | California | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-procedure Descamps due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication Mathis prior-conviction-exception sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), this Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pe… |
| 18-9615 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 18-9581 | Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation | I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9565 | Casey Stoermer v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Casey Stoermer lived in a separate apartment connected to the home of Aaron Smith. On the morning of June 21, 2016, law enforcement officers went to S… |
| 18-9547 | Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qu… |
| 18-9433 | Timothy J. Stubbs v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-activity financial-records financial-transparency fraud fraud-or-deceit kawashima-v-holder sentencing-enhancement sophisticated-means tax-assessment tax-evasion | Does the Government meet its burden of proof in a tax evasion case (as opposed to failure to file) where the financial records of the accused are trut… |
| 18-9415 | Michael Don Neely v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 18-9360 | Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18A1207 | Michael Lee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause felony-robbery johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9343 | Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio… |
| 18-9323 | Donald Duhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-17 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9325 | Davion L. Jefferson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 18-9330 | Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9277 | Melvin Scott Morman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 18-9100 | Corry Mency v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge | Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-9133 | Abdul Karim Bangura v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement withdrawal | I. THE 4 CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DID NOT OVERTURN THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BANGURA's MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA BECAUSE THE MOTION WAS FIL… |
| 18-9086 | Roel Daniel Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession felony firearm-possession hypothetical-facts misdemeanor misdemeanor-predicate predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sixth-amendment united-states-sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE FOUR LEVEL ENHANCEMENT FOR POSSESSING A FIREARM IN CONNECTION WITH ANOTHER FELONY OFFENSE PURSUANT TO U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) APPLY WHEN … |
| 18-9079 | Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims | Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-9003 | Ariel Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession | 1. When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration attached to her objections to a Presentence Report, which denies certain key required elements of the … |
| 18-1359 | William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | (1) Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's … |
| 18-8932 | Vickie L. Sanders v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
| 18-9006 | Donald Ray Boles v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which created a carve-out to the rule later adopted in Apprendi v. New… |
| 18-8957 | Scott Matthew Goss v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession | 1. May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting t… |
| 18-8941 | Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed… |
| 18-8900 | Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-8807 | Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8831 | Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-8751 | William Len Rainey v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses | unconstitutional as appliedinatrialon Sept.21, 201 denying the Petitioner basc Duc rocess protections and affetihis substatialrights? AWe e investiga… |
| 18-8743 | Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8760 | James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony | (1) Is a sentence as a career offender (com) unvalied se valid when a fone violent ors conviction, (Kloada attery on Law en Mv Licey), LO au by wily o… |
| 18-8718 | Anthony C. Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness | Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8714 | Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8703 | Alan Wade Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8708 | Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta… |
| 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 under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8636 | Brian Hoskins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions | Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United … |
| 18-8617 | Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8406 | Demone Rule v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempt-offense attempted-offense categorical-approach elements-clause illinois-law physical-force sentencing-enhancement substantial-step violent-felony | Illinois attempt offense contain only two elements: the intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The subs… |
| 18-8380 | Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses | 1. Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as "serious drug offenses" for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii). 2. Whether Flor… |
| 18-8329 | Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8267 | Vincent Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8274 | Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance | The Probation Department assessed the Movant with two separate enhancements under USSG 3C1.1 and 3C1.2 for obstruction of justice and Reckless Endange… |
| 18-8245 | Gary Casdell Fite v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-8225 | Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony | obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to testify on his behalf? |
| 18-8190 | Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8148 | Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne… |
| 18-8169 | In Re Alfredo Aguirre | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… | |
| 18-8076 | Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits? … |
| 18-8110 | In Re LaShawn Anderson | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement | This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic… | |
| 18-8055 | Kevin Ventura v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 18-8025 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in… |
| 18-8031 | William Bolden v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-7974 | Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |
| 18-7896 | Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two level enhancement for "knowingly engaging in distribution" of child pornography under… |
| 18-7823 | Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-7869 | Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence | Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism opening the protal to use 28 U.S.C. §2241, to test the legality of an unconstitutional se… |
| 18-7789 | Ashley Richards v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals | When a statutory punishment enhancement is found inapplicable to a class of offenses, thereby decreasing the punishment range from 2-10 years to 180 d… |
| 18-7804 | Denandias Watson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7769 | Demetrius Hill v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching | Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial? Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |
| 18-7795 | Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 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 | TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-7801 | Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-7765 | Burgess Massey v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act … |
| 18-7773 | Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-7750 | Ronald Morrobel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That The Petitioner Was An Armed Career Criminal When State Law Clearly Defined Florida Aggravated … |
| 18-7740 | Esequiel Joel Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility certificate-of-appealability due-process government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. Whether It Was Error to deny Rcdriguez A Certificate of Appealability, to Pursue His Sixth Amendment Claim on Appeal, Where He Demonstrated Ineffec… |
| 18-7616 | Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe… |
| 18-7723 | Randy Dempsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7668 | Patricio Paladin v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7645 | Alhan Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim | The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
| 18-7570 | Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7586 | Zachary T. Frey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally vag… |
| 18-7587 | Biven Hudson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review | Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability as to the denial by the district court of his motion… |
| 18-7498 | Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision… |
| 18-7473 | William Dale Albright v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent | QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,… |
| 18-7426 | Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | Where (1) the sentencing record is silent or does not clearly establish if the district court relied on the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual claus… |
| 18-7418 | Derrick T. Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement? Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… |
| 18-7419 | Fausto Becerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7391 | Gadiel Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | I. Is it proper for a sentencing court to apply the substantial 6-level increase to a defendant's offense level contemplated in Section 2A4.1(b)(1) of… |
| 18-7393 | Rodrigo Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis | Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… |
| 18-7323 | Robert Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony | GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7304 | Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power | Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes s… |
| 18-7252 | Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7192 | Lavell Phillips v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… |
| 18-7185 | Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-7166 | Gerard Mann v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct.… |
| 18-7098 | Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement | Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas… |
| 18-7127 | Christopher French v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute | Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate? May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-7039 | Alexander Ndaula v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The 5th & 6th amendments to the Constitution guarantee fairness in criminal proceedings to the accused. When the verification of a sentence enhancemen… |
| 18-7061 | Francisco Reza v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-crime federal-crimes felon-in-possession firearms-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing state-misdemeanor | Issue 1: Did Petitioner's prior crimes for which he spent less than 1 year and a day imprisonment: qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement? Issue 2… |
| 18-6979 | Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6996 | Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS, DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F… |
| 18-6952 | Ortino Garcia Licon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255h2 acca-residual-clause federal-prisoner generic-burglary habeas-corpus historical-fact sentencing-enhancement successive-motion | Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that ACCA's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentence, but fails to show as … |
| 18-6936 | Anthony Bernard Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6912 | Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6809 | Desmond Camp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(c) when Hobbs Act robbery does not match the elements clause of S… |
| 18-6822 | Mark Anthony Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The plain language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requires the United States to, "before trial," file an "information" if it intends to seek enhanced statutory pe… |
| 18-6757 | Ronald Ray Norman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act? II. Is the… |
| 18-6774 | Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute | Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6706 | Jeremiah Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6692 | Richard D. Waterson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing double-counting fairness justice procedural-reasonableness reasonableness recidivism recidivism-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, this Court should determine that the sentence imposed on… |
| 18-6705 | Richard A. Jiles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary divisibility divisible-statute felon-in-possession georgia georgia-burglary-statute predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement | Was correct to find that Mr. Jiles' prior burglary conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 was a predicate offense under the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 18-6662 | Eddie Lee Shular v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 18-614 | In Re George Houston | 2018-11-09 | Denied | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… | ||
| 18-6564 | Cephus Hollis v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft | Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6574 | Curtis D. Hall v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence firearm-use sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | 1. Whether (as the court of appeals held) the categorical approach does not apply in any case in which the defendant was also convicted of "use[ of] a… |
| 18-6589 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation | 1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t… |
| 18-6537 | In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca… | |
| 18-6548 | Salvatore Leone v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states | Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6472 | James Gibson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l… |
| 18-6418 | Denver Ivan Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the trial Courts denial of Petitioners Writ of Habeas Corpus Filed Pursuant to florida Rules of Court 3.850 (m) alleging that Petitioner Could… |
| 18-6397 | Angel Rosario v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness | Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t… |
| 18-6413 | Joshua Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6360 | Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime | After Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __ , 135 S. Ct. 2551 and Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), can reasonable jurists debate whether ar… |
| 18-6370 | Charles Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6328 | Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6301 | Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution | A "serious drug offense," under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.s.c. § 924(e), is one involving manufacturing, distribution or possessing with int… |
| 18-6302 | Francisco Melgar-Cabrera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-felony predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether Hobbs Act robbery as set forth as a predicate felony offense in Count 4 of the Second Superseding Indictment qualifies as a "crime of violence… |
| 18-6277 | Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6162 | Lyanne Lemeunier-Fitzgerald v. Maine | Maine | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent-coercion criminal-penalties due-process implied-consent mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Does a motorist voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood draw if she has been warned that refusal to submit will result in a mandatory minimum perio… |
| 18-6165 | Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings… |
| 18-6171 | Dion Terry Taylor v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims | 1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6156 | Hector Medina v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6104 | Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime | 1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 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 | I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-6097 | Leonard G. Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony | I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-6083 | Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct | Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6056 | Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which nullifies a Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) sentence, unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth … |
| 18-6061 | Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute | I. In a direct criminal appeal, is it a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals r… |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-6042 | Ronald Eric Ary v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-5978 | John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6013 | Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | IFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2… |
| 18-6009 | Emile Myrthil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force | 1. Is "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018)… |
| 18-5999 | Joe Litton Bailey v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence habitual-offender jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) in this case, the responding police officer failed to preserve the alleged crime scene. There are no photos of the vehicle, the broken window, or o… |
| 18-5966 | Joseph Faulkner v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states | (1) Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduc… |
| 18-5969 | Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error … |
| 18-5935 | Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5884 | Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor | 1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment… |
| 18-5900 | Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5866 | Nathan Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. In accord with the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, should a conviction under the Hobbs … |
| 18-5876 | Steven Sanford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5840 | George Stoney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5810 | Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing | VIOLATION OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ILLEGAL SENTENCE AND DETAINED THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE GOVERNMENT ERRED BY NOT EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENTS AT SENTE… |
| 18-5773 | Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5732 | James LaConte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony | Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is categor… |
| 18-5745 | Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | SSUE (1) Did the Honorable Judge James S. Moody Jr. violate Mr. Molina's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in conjunction vith the due process cla… |
| 18-5725 | Alfred Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure | Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-229 | Ralph Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion | Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes… | |
| 18-5680 | Reginald McGee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | I. The district court reverisbly erred when it determined that the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault was a violent felony qual ifyin… |
| 18-5654 | Willie Lee Daniels v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5655 | Cory D. Foster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5663 | Curtis Lee Dale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 18-5612 | Detrick C. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appeal abilit… |
| 18-5594 | Cory Devon Washington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5593 | Maurice Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 | Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-5532 | Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, GALINDO JOSE RUIZ-HERNANDEZ, was tried and convicted of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. The District Court adde… |
| 18-5561 | Jose Nieves-Galarza v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-criminal-career-act johnson-v-united-states new-york-penal-law new-york-penal-law-160.15(1) new-york-robbery-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement serious-physical-injury third-circuit violent-felony violent-force | For a prior conviction to qualify as a predicate for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Criminal Career Act, it must be for an offense that is a "vi… |
| 18-5520 | James Morris Sellers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents | Question not identified. |
| 18-5521 | Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release | WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS? … |
| 18-5525 | Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states | Whether application of the rule pronounced in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), barring the sentenci… |
| 18-5474 | Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5480 | Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony | 1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 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 | 1. Is Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA when state law defines "distribution" to include "transport with i… |
| 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 | Under the ACCA, can a sentencing court rely solely on non-elemental facts to infer that a defendant's temporally overlapping and related offenses were… |
| 18-5405 | Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5384 | Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations | Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges for… |
| 18-5398 | Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5380 | Luis Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction | Does a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maxim um term of imprisonm en… |
| 18-5383 | James Rodney Shuman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness | WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5321 | Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… |
| 18-5269 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-5232 | Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | Is a state robbery offense categorically a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) (an offense that "has as … |
| 18-5217 | Audy Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |
| 18-5204 | Jose Luis Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens | WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ? WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5127 | Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-20 | Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari | In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.… |
| 18-5095 | Tron Lakey Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime | Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… |
| 18-5105 | Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | Whether in its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, and based upon this Court's clear precedent and the facts of record, thi… |
| 18-5073 | Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… |
| 18-5092 | Tyrone Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act florida-robbery physical-force prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement stokeling-v-united-states victim-resistance violent-felony | I. Whether Mr. Anderson's sentence must be vacated because Florida robbery is not a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act. I… |
| 18-5033 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5041 | Louis Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 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… |
| 18-5062 | Norman L. Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… |
| 18-5022 | Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states | In Stokeling v. United States, No. 17-5554, this Court has granted certiorari to resolve whether a state robbery offense that requires a purposeful us… |