| 25-6747 |
Brad McLennan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categorical approach by dismissing an elemental mismatch as a mere variation in terminology? |
| 25-6654 |
Kyle Shirakawa Handley v. Christopher Pierce, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
california-law criminal-procedure due-process notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
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' violat… |
| 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 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-recklessness felon-in-possession jury-trial self-defense sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
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 crimi… |
| 25-6462 |
Jamaur Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery remains a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) in light of recent Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit precedent |
| 25-6442 |
Michael Hinds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Does the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) require a different inquiry for determining structural errors in sentencing, involving a detailed analysis o… |
| 25-6432 |
Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
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 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants the right to a jury trial on statutorily required factual findings before an enha… |
| 25-6410 |
Hunter Michael Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-19 |
Pending |
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 |
Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc… |
| 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 |
Whether the two-strikes provision of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) requires a uniform definition of 'sexual exploitation of children' across federal circuit cou… |
| 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 |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause applies to habitual offender sentencing proceedings in light of the Court's evolving Sixth Amendment jurisprudence … |
| 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 |
Whether aiding and abetting a mail offense constitutes a crime of violence for sentencing enhancement purposes and what standard of review applies to … |
| 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 |
Whether aiding and abetting a mail offense constitutes a crime of violence for sentencing enhancement purposes and what standard of review applies to … |
| 25A678 |
Thurmond McDonald v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine a defendant's status as a habitual felony offender under Florida law |
| 25-6322 |
Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington |
Washington |
2025-12-09 |
Pending |
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 |
Application |
|
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement |
Whether an individual who did not actually commit three qualifying predicate offenses can assert an actual innocence exception to procedural bars on h… |
| 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 |
Whether a jury must find both conspiracy amount and personal responsibility amount under 21 U.S.C. §846 to comply with Apprendi and Alleyne, and wheth… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery categorically constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) in light of United States v. Taylor |
| 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 |
Does the ACCA occasions-different determination, requiring a multi-factored analysis of the factual circumstances involving at least three prior quali… |
| 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 |
Whether the conjunctive language 'during and in relation to' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) requires a distinct statutory interpretation beyond prior Sup… |
| 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 for sentencing enhancements that were explicitly excluded in the original… |
| 25A535 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a defendant's prior state drug possession convictions qualify as 'felony drug offenses' under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) for purposes of imposing a ma… |
| 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 the district court erred in finding an enhanced statutory maximum of life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction without charging an en… |
| 25-5956 |
In Re Santos Cuevas |
|
2025-10-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-remedy double-jeopardy judicial-estoppel post-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment may be retroactively applied by the state to allow remedy in initial and successive post-conviction proceedings, and wheth… |
| 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 |
Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categorical approach by dismissing an elemental mismatch as a mere variation in terminology? |
| 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 |
Whether the Mississippi habitual offender amendment to Page's indictment was illegal and void due to procedural defects and whether Page was improperl… |
| 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 |
Is judicial fact-finding of periods of incarceration beyond the scope of the Almendarez-Torres exception and barred by the Apprendi constitutional gua… |
| 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 |
Whether the First Step Act modifies career offender sentencing enhancements for drug felonies and violent crimes after December 21, 2018 |
| 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 |
Whether the failure to reference penalty provisions in an indictment precludes application of the highest maximum sentence and whether lack of notice … |
| 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 |
Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) remains valid despite the Supreme Court's decisio… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) after the Supreme Court's decisions in Mathis… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fourth Circuit's decision, and remand for further consideration in light of United States v. Tay… |
| 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 |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits imposing an enhanced ACCA sentence when a defendant pleaded guilty only to the simple § 922(g) offense an… |
| 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 |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts and whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for poss… |
| 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 |
Whether a prior felony conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act for purposes of imposing an enhanced sentence |
| 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 |
Whether a district court may impose a substantially equivalent sentence through alternative sentencing enhancements after a partial reversal and reman… |
| 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 |
Whether a district court's determination of an armed career criminal status based on prior drug convictions arising from a single arrest and plea on t… |
| 25-5400 |
Andrew Charles Beard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction |
Whether challenging an 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a constitutional or statutory construction claim that impacts plea enforcement |
| 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 Erlinger decision require a jury to pass on the three separate occasions factor in the Armed Criminal Convictions Act (ACCA), and if … |
| 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 |
When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding of g… |
| 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 |
Does the unique ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger error structural, and what is the proper harmless-error review test for a guilty plea… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) when bank robbery ca… |
| 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 a conviction under Alabama Code § 13A-6-93 constitutes a misdemeanor charge that can be used to enhance a subsequent sentence under presumptiv… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court violated Mr. Ayala-Alas's due process rights by requiring him to proceed to trial with only a Spanish interpreter despite h… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Amendment jury right requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine the length of a defendant's prior incarceration for purposes… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial is violated when a sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act is determine… |
| 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 |
Is federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) a 'crime of violence' for purposes of enhanced sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 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 |
Whether state kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocate the burden of proof for extended imprisonment terms and violate due process by requiri… |
| 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 |
Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's interpretation of kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocates the burden of proof and violates due process … |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant convicted of RICO conspiracy under 18 USC § 1962(d) is subject to enhanced sentencing under § 1963(a) based on a jury finding of 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 |
Whether a cyberstalking conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2) categorically qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for sentencing enhancement purposes |
| 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 |
Whether the district court's final jury instruction for the Special Sentencing Factor violated Apprendi v. New Jersey and constructively amended the i… |
| 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 a categorical mismatch occurs when the elements of a predicate state offense criminalize conduct outside the enumerated offense under the thre… |
| 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan standard for conflict of interest apply uniformly across circuits when assessing Sixth Amendment violations in successive … |
| 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 |
Does Michigan's broader definition of cocaine under state law preclude sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act when compared to feder… |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas burglary statute qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act after United States v. Stitt, given its potent… |
| 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 |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(a) is permissible when leadership participants are charged in a separate indictment |
| 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 |
Is a conviction based solely on inconsistent and contradictory testimony from a cooperating co-defendant legally sufficient to sustain a criminal conv… |
| 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 |
Does the Due Process Clause bar criminal liability and sentencing enhancements based on post-conduct agency guidance lacking statutory authority? |
| 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 |
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 |
Whether the district court erred in imposing a two-level sentencing enhancement and denying a downward variance for a defendant convicted of drug traf… |
| 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 |
Whether law enforcement can conduct a Terry stop based on subjective factors without specific evidence of criminal activity, and whether a sentencing … |
| 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 |
Whether an intervening Court of Appeals decision invalidating a defendant's career offender enhancement should be applied retroactively |
| 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 |
QP: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a four-level sentencing enhancement for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 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 |
When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)… |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who is part of a criminal activity can be counted towards the five-participant threshold for a leadership role enhancement under U… |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner Calixte was properly sentenced as an armed career criminal under Erlinger v. United States when the district court relied on Shepar… |
| 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 |
Whether a statute that does not require the affirmative use of force has, as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force |
| 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 |
Whether mere possession of a firearm in the same location as drug trafficking constitutes possession 'in furtherance of' a drug offense under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-6129 |
In Re Jason Clark |
|
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a categorical approach to sentencing enhancement under 18 USCS 924 can be denied based on United States v. Taylor, and whether a federal prose… |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing court should consult Chapter 109A offenses when determining a Chapter 110 sentencing enhancement for prior sexual abuse convictio… |
| 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 Blakely v. Washington establish an 'unpled but admitted facts' exception to Apprendi v. New Jersey's Sixth Amendment interpretation regarding jur… |
| 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' under § 4B1.… |
| 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 |
Whether the presumption of mens rea applies to elements that increase statutory minimum and maximum penalties or only to elements that criminalize oth… |
| 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 a state child pornography statute that is broader than the federal statute can categorically qualify as an offense 'relating to' child pornogr… |
| 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 |
Whether judicial fact-finding that increases a criminal sentence beyond the concurrent sentencing guidelines violates the Sixth Amendment right to a j… |
| 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 |
Whether federal courts should consult the most recent state court decisions or pre-conviction state court decisions when determining the elements of a… |
| 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 |
Whether the 'in relation to' element of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires more than a mere potential to facilitate a crime of violence when a firearm is car… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find the specific drug quantity necessary to impose a Level III drug trafficking sentence beyond a reas… |
| 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 |
Whether Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors or sentencing errors and whether Almendarez-Torres should be overruled |
| 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 |
Whether a VICAR assault can qualify as a 'crime of violence' if the underlying assault does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s definition |
| 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 |
Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the … |
| 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 |
Whether a federal court may reject state appellate authority in determining a state statute's divisibility under the categorical approach and whether … |
| 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 Armed Career sentencing, violating… |
| 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 that does not require proof of knowledge of the illicit nature of the substance can qualify as a 'seri… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court violated constitutional rights by denying relief on indictment charges, charging the same crime across multiple indictments… |
| 24A184 |
Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
Whether a state court's retroactive interpretation of a criminal statute's mens rea element can alter the classification of a prior conviction as a 'v… |
| 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 sentencing a defendant based on acquitted conduct |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old qualifies as 'abusive sexual conduct in… |
| 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 federal carjacking conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 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 |
Whether New York's second-degree murder statute qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether prior drug convictions eligible for the career offender sentencing enhancement in 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) must involve a 'controlled substance' as … |
| 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 Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine whether a defendant's prior convictions arose from separate criminal ep… |
| 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 |
Whether a state criminal trial court's finding of a juvenile defendant's gang membership, unsupported by sufficient evidence, violates the defendant's… |
| 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 |
Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes applying the Supreme Court's Jones v. Hendrix decision to bar a federal prisoner's habeas corpus claim chal… |
| 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 |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(D) and that the sen… |
| 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 |
Whether an Alleyne or Apprendi error involving a sentencing enhancement should be reviewed under the harmless error standard of Neder or the more stri… |
| 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 |
due-process |
| 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 |
Does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of violence? |
| 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 |
Whether convictions under the VICAR statute for assault with a dangerous weapon qualify as 'crimes of violence' for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
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 victims'… |
| 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 |
Was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed-career-criminal |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of the District Court's fact-finding and sentencing enhancements |
| 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 |
Whether state child pornography laws can serve as predicate offenses triggering enhanced mandatory minimum penalties under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) |
| 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 |
Whether a non-generic statutory rape offense that sets the age of consent at 18 can trigger a federal child pornography sentencing enhancement under 1… |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process by not being allowed to submit supplemental evidentiary arguments or be allowed to submit an amended mem… |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's methamphetamine was simil… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that uncorroborated and unreliable double hearsay statements of an unreliable confidential informant was suf… |
| 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 remain enforceable when the Presentence Investigation Report applies an enhancement … |
| 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 |
Whether the Constitution requires an indictment to allege, and a jury to find (or a defendant to admit), the extra facts necessary to impose an ACCA s… |
| 23-7458 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2024-05-13 |
Dismissed |
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 error in denying petitioner's 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing? |
| 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 |
Whether the inchoate offense of engaging in an illegal drug conspiracy constitutes a serious drug offense for purposes of increasing a defendant's sta… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from enhancing a criminal defendant's sentence based on acquitted conduct that could c… |
| 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 is a predicate 'crime of violence' for 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 |
Whether a reckless offense can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) following the Court's decision in B… |
| 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 |
Whether the elements of a prior conviction can be determined using current judicial interpretations |
| 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 |
Whether the Government may be required to prove the factual basis for a sentencing enhancement by clear and convincing evidence |
| 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 |
Due-process-violation |
| 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 |
Whether the obstruction of justice enhancement for 'false' trial testimony by the defendant violates the right to testify when the court did not make … |
| 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 |
Whether the trial Court Committed reversible error in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on self-defense and necessity, even though… |
| 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 require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that there is a nexus betwe… |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can sentence a defendant to life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction when the jury found the defendant did not agre… |
| 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 |
Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement waives all other grounds for the enhancement |
| 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 |
Can the sentencing guideline be applied to the defendant's conduct, which occurred before any justice was being administered and before any investigat… |
| 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 |
Whether prior state convictions qualify as 'felony drug offenses' when state statutes encompass broader conduct than federal statutes |
| 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 either … |
| 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) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court erred in its application of the sentencing enhancements and the reasonableness of the sentence imposed |
| 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 qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether the Government should bear the burden of proving that a defendant is 'non-indigent' under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a) before the district court impose… |
| 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 |
Whether the different-occasions element of the Armed Career Criminal Act must be charged in the indictment and either admitted as part of a guilty ple… |
| 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 |
Does 18 USC § 3147 authorize a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum for the underlying offense? |
| 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 Bank Robbery qualify as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)'s residual … |
| 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 |
Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may be s… |
| 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 |
Whether 'aiding and abetting a robbery' qualifies as a crime of violence under federal criminal statutes |
| 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 qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed o… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether attempted murder with the same elements as attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 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 |
Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Does § 17-22.5-403 C.R.S. violate due-process, sentence-enhancement, time-computation, non-categorical-approach, colorado-dept-of-corrections, prior-c… |
| 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 either … |
| 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 |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Constitution provides immunity from prosecution for a defendant who has already been punished for the same o… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by affirming the district court's failure to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding the fact his Gui… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when multiple attorneys fail to adequately challenge plea a… |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tampering,… |
| 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 |
Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed o… |
| 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 |
Whether the two §$§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single 'unit of prosectution |
| 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 |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement for a felon in possession of a firearm was properly applied and whether the resulting sentence was reasonable… |
| 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 |
Whether a district court's fact-finding at sentencing that lacks explicit reasoning for selecting among competing inferences violates a defendant's Si… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant must have exercised some direction or supervision over a subordinate participant in a criminal activity to qualify for a sentencin… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge |
| 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 |
Whether the Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority when, contrary to a Congressional directive, it made the 'Use of a Minor' sentencing enhancem… |
| 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 constitute impermissible double counting in violation of the 5th Amendment's Due Process a… |
| 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 |
Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove prior convictions for ACCA sentencing be alleged in indictment and proven to jury? |
| 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 falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' |
| 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 |
Whether the 'escape hatch' or 'saving clause' of 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) permits a federal prisoner to file a habeas corpus petition to contest the legalit… |
| 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 |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement |
| 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 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability when the petitioner showed that reasonable jurists could deb… |
| 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 qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits California from retroactively modifying a prior conviction to enhance a defendant'… |
| 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 |
Whether the 'death results' element in 21 U.S.C. 841(b) requires proof of mens rea |
| 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 the prior disgorgement punishment precludes a criminal sentence or sentencing enhancement based on the same misconduct under the Double Jeopar… |
| 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 |
Whether plain error review applies when a defendant opposes a government objection to a sentencing enhancement? |
| 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 and attempted armed bank robbery are 'crimes of violence' |
| 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 |
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 elements cl… |
| 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 require facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on 'occasions different from one … |
| 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 a state offense relates to the 'sexual exploitation of children' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) |
| 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 |
Was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing to alert Guerra about potenti… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court judge may find the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior offenses 'on occasions different from … |
| 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 |
Whether the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the federal offense or the prior state offense should be used to define a 'serious drug of… |
| 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 |
Whether an indictment that fails to allege all material elements of the charges violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendm… |
| 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 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3) is a 'crime of violence' under the 'force clause' of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 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 |
Whether the Court may rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is… |
| 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(@) 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 |
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 pr… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause te… |
| 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 |
Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all violate… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Was it proper for the state to intentionally mislead the court |
| 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 |
Can an original guilty plea be completely knowing and voluntary? |
| 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) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 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 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) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 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 |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 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 |
Will jurists of reason find debatable the application of a double standard of law, by the Government's arguing of two opposite interpretations of the … |
| 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) |
| 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 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(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 |
Whether the 'serious drug offense' definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery can serve as the underlying felony for a 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction |
| 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 |
Whether the term 'knowingly or intentionally' requires the Government to prove that the defendant knew what substance he or she was distributing to ob… |
| 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 murder by omission qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether the new statutory definition of 'serious drug felony' in the First Step Act applies to career offender enhancements |
| 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 |
Whether a scalp laceration is a 'serious bodily injury' as defined in SDCL 22-1-2(1A)? |
| 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 |
whether-the-5th-circuit-erred-in-applying-a-6-point-enhancement-for-crimes-against-government-to-crimes-against-civilians |
| 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 Sixth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)'s procedural bar to a collateral challenge to a prior juvenile adjudication that was used… |
| 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 |
Whether the court's prejudice prong in Strickland v. Washington is satisfied when an attorney admits to ineffective assistance and the defendant rejec… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty to being an armed career criminal is precluded from challenging the predicate convictions in a post-conviction p… |
| 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 |
Whether the reasoning of United States v. Taylor applies to determining if an overbroad state crime qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal Act predicat… |
| 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 |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially? |
| 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. 166 -that facts which expose a defendant to substantially enhanced punishment need not be pled … |
| 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 |
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 groun… |
| 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 |
Whether the Constitution requires the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior offenses 'on occasions different from one anot… |
| 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 |
Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 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 |
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… |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to impose a mandatory-minimum under ACCA |
| 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 |
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, absent … |
| 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 18 U.S.C. 1962(c) if Congress intended for a RICO conspiracy to be complete when reached, … |
| 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 committe… |
| 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 |
Whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault teller whose job duties do not rise to t… |
| 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 |
Does the struck-down 18 USC 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSG§4B1.2(a)(ii) Ca… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings in A… |
| 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 was wrongly decided |
| 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 allows the prosecutor to go outside that agreement and urge a sentencing enhancement not integrated into the Agre… |
| 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 Massachusett… |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner's attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, without the use of physical force, is suffic… |
| 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 |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when it rather than the jury finds that the defendant committed the offense with… |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment is valid |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law in sentencing review |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Edmonds was required to prove that it is 'more likely than not' that the sentencing judge 'actually relied on' the ACCA's unconstitutional… |
| 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 a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment for drug type and quantity without proof of knowledge |
| 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 |
Whether juvenile adjudications obtained without a trial by jury can be used to enhance a defendant's sentence in a later proceeding |
| 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 |
Whether facts increasing statutory maximum must be pleaded and proven |
| 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 |
Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a se… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions should have been classified as relevant conduct |
| 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 |
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 |
Question not identified |
| 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 |
Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001 |
| 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 |
Whether Fagans is entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing |
| 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 |
Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articulabl… |
| 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 |
Should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3), apply when a defendant's sentence is enhanced based on non-expert tes… |
| 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 |
Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a fir… |
| 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 |
whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in relying upon a now-excised provision to trigger a mandatory minimum penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 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 |
Whether due process requires that the comparison of elements of a prior conviction from a foreign state for sentencing enhancement purposes encompass … |
| 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 |
Whether the Petitioner should have been sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACCA) |
| 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 |
Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay |
| 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 state's statutory definition to determine if… |
| 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 a crime that is not a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act can serve as a predicate offense for purposes of the Act's sentencing… |
| 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) Gi)? |
| 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 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the petitioner's due process rights by misapplying the categorical analysis and relying on a non-retroactive state … |
| 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 |
Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for the… |
| 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 |
Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were violated |
| 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 Fifth Circuit conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on sentencing enhancements |
| 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 can qualify as a predicate 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 was wrongly decided |
| 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 |
Did the court err in considering the argument that the separate interrogatory is an issue of material fact and that the jury had no knowledge of infor… |
| 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 |
Can the Texas burglary statute be the basis for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty applies to federal courts' application and interpretation of state-court decisional law |
| 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 |
Does the actual innocence exception apply to a noncapital sentence? |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly approved the district court's decision to increase the petitioner's sentence based on unscored prior convictions |
| 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 |
Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when identifying the elements… |
| 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 |
Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never… |
| 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 violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 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 reckl… |
| 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 |
What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? |
| 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 |
What constitutes a threat of physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy |
| 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 |
Whether Cortificate of APPEALABILETY SHOULD HAVE BREA GeenTen? |
| 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 and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery are crimes of violence |
| 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 |
Whether bank robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Whether a court can impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on a prior conviction not alleged in the indictment, consistent with the Sixth Amendm… |
| 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 |
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.S. … |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding the district court's enhancement of the defendant's sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1 based on an expire… |
| 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 |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under 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-alvarado's-conviction-qualifies-as-violent-crime |
| 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 |
Whether the ACCA, 851, and Career Offender enhancements should be removed in light of the First Step Act Section 401 and the First Step Implementation… |
| 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 |
If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divisibi… |
| 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 |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o… |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court's consideration of prior offenses under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether the Hobbs Act, in accordance with constitutional limits, only punishes a robbery when the Government proves that the robbery itself affected i… |
| 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 general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained b… |
| 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 |
whether-an-unlawful-application-of-an-enhancement-pursuant-to-title-21-u.s.c.-851-amounts-to-a-fundamental-misscarriage-of-justice |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether a court may place determinative weight on the government's charging language when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. U… |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed… |
| 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 |
Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a 'totality of the circumstances' test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, 'com… |
| 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 |
Whether any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime that must be found by a jury, not a judg… |
| 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 Mr. Parker's life sentence for count 1 should be vacated due to lack of two prior qualifying 'serious violent felony' convictions |
| 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 |
issue-being-raised |
| 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 |
Whether a federal court may certify the divisibility inquiry to state court and rely on the newly created judicial interpretation of state law to enha… |
| 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 |
Whether the 1936 rule set forth in People v Britton, 6 Cal.2d 1 violates Apprendi, Alleyne and the notice requirements of the Sixth Amendment |
| 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 |
Whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-375(B) are divisible into three offenses |
| 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 |
Whether the maximum penalty is 10 years or life when a defendant pleads guilty to felon-in-possession and waives appeal rights except for exceeding st… |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner should be prohibited from filing pro se pleadings |
| 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 falls outside the definition of a 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether evidence covered by Brady v. Maryland is considered suppressed under the Fifth Amendment regardless of the defendant's knowledge |
| 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 remains a predicate crime of violence for 18 U.S.C § 924(c) |
| 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 OCGA § 16-13-30 qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' for purposes of enhancing a defendant's sentence under USSG § 2K2.… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated |
| 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 |
When the Appellate Court of a chemical that 'could' be used to manufacture a 'serious drug' is remand required? |
| 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 |
Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 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 under the Armed Career Criminal Act confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior conviction? |
| 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 |
Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable statute … |
| 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. 924(c) |
| 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 is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
Whether aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of violent physical force under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 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 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 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 |
whether-the-enhanced-penalty-for-death-resulting-from-use-of-a-substance-requires-proof-of-proximate-cause |
| 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 |
whether-defendant-failed-to-preserve-argument-by-not-raising-it-at-sentencing-hearing |
| 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 |
Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for 'reckless endangerment during flight' after already applying a 4-level 'i… |
| 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 |
Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve this significant circuit split and the Ninth Circuit's failure to follow binding precedent from this Cou… |
| 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 |
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 'bot… |
| 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 |
Whether the trial court and criminal court of appeals of Texas violated established federal law as determined by the United States Supreme Court |
| 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 is a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) |
| 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 Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 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 |
Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a pr… |
| 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 |
Issue 1 |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability |
| 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 |
Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery? |
| 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 |
Whether the government's seizure of private property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 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 |
Whether the defendant was deprived of his Sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when counsel failed to investigate his criminal history |
| 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 the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when defense counsel's deficient advice led to a two-point sentencin… |
| 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 |
Whether the mens rea requirement of 'knowingly' in a criminal statute applies to all elements of the offense, or only to those elements that separate … |
| 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 on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m… |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States and hold that a prior conviction is an element of the aggravated form of the ille… |
| 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 |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error… |
| 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 |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague |
| 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(c)(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 |
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 district c… |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon without being advised that one element is knowledge of his s… |
| 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 |
Whether a prosecutor's threats to a defendant that he would receive a harsher sentence if he did not accept a plea deal denied him his constitutional … |
| 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)(8)(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 |
| 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 a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment under 21 U.S.C. § 841 without proof that he knew the drug type and quantity |
| 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 |
Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 due process violated when a defendant receives an enhanced sentence based on erroneous factual conclusions without adequate advance notice? |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Did the Trial Judge violate Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 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 |
Whether the appellate court adoptions of the district court dispositive procedural conclusions erred in holding Collins had failed to prove Article II… |
| 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 |
whether-a-federal-court-may-increase-a-defendant's-sentence-under-the-armed-career-criminal-act |
| 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 |
Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18-U.S.C-924(c) |
| 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' |
| 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 |
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 bee… |
| 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 |
May a federal district court enhance a federal sentence based on a prior sentence imposed by way of a clear and complete deprivation of the individual… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in its 'crime of violence' instruction to the jury |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? |
| 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 |
Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review |
| 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 |
Whether courts have jurisdiction to consider habeas claims when the remedy under Section 2255 is inadequate |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in classifying Mr. Griffin as an armed career criminal |
| 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 |
Is a Texas deferred adjudication a 'prior conviction' for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? |
| 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 |
Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional? |
| 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 |
Whether the consecutive imposition of a federal and state recidivism-enhanced sentence violates the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 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 is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Amendment permits a sentencing court to find that a defendant's prior convictions were committed on different occasions based on non… |
| 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 |
Whether a court can impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on a prior conviction not alleged in the indictment, consistent with the Sixth Amendm… |
| 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 |
Whether, on collateral review, the government may maintain a sentencing enhancement under the ACCA by substituting a different ACCA predicate prior co… |
| 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, qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
What constitutes relevant conduct? |
| 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)(8)(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 |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is 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 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused its discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 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' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases |
| 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 |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is categorically … |
| 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 |
Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl… |
| 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 |
Whether counsel rendered ineffective assistance by allowing the court to rely on a prior conviction for sentencing purposes absent court documents to … |
| 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 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in treating the limiting language 'against the person of another' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as mere surplusage |
| 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) precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms convictions unless the second violation 'occurs after a prior con… |
| 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 |
Whether the court of appeals erred in terminating the inquiry into whether the petitioner met the requirements for a writ of certiorari |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing judge can find facts about a defendant's prior offenses |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted |
| 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 |
whether-federal-court-may-increase-sentence-under-acca |
| 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 |
Whether the petitioner's equal protection and right to counsel rights were violated |
| 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 |
Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 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 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability |
| 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 |
Whether an offense is 'punishable by imprisonment for more than one year' when the maximum term permitted by the applicable statutory sentencing schem… |
| 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 |
should-moore's-plea-and-conviction-be-vacated |
| 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 |
Whether a guilty plea entered without knowledge of the knowledge-of-status element is reversible error per se |
| 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 |
Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum 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 |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. Oje… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court improperly applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house where there was no evidence that the defendant's pr… |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether a prior Georgia robbery conviction constitutes a 'crime of violence' for enhancement purposes |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing court can impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on a prior conviction not alleged in the indictment, consistent with the S… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e) bars a defendant from seeking re-sentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 after successfully challenging a prior state conviction … |
| 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 |
Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness |
| 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 |
Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or for the sentencing judge to decide? |
| 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 |
Whether an individual serving a wrongfully enhanced sentence is barred from obtaining relief solely because the wrongfulness of the sentence was estab… |
| 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 require prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mandat… |
| 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 |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22… |
| 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 ME Senate Bill 1343 violate the petitioner's due-process and equal-protection rights under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? |
| 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 |
Whether the district court and the court of appeals erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence |
| 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 |
Does a juvenile conviction for possession of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement? |
| 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… |
| 19-8478 |
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 |
Can a judge rely on facts not found by a jury to enhance a sentence after this Court's decision in United States v. Alleyne, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), where… |
| 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. § 851 enhancement for prior drug convictions |
| 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 |
Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process |
| 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 |
Whether the First Step Act of U.S. Senate Bill 756 applies to the Petitioner |
| 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 |
Is the state required to prove the defendant qualifies as a PRR by a preponderance of the evidence? |
| 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 |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
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) |
| 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 |
Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as a generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is invalid |
| 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 |
Was petitioner represented by counsel in connection with his two prior robbery convictions? |
| 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 |
Is first degree murder under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code a 'crime of violence' for the purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)? |
| 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 Classify Mr. Wilson As A Career Offender |
| 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 |
Does the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi's 5-4 decision violate the petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Uni… |
| 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 |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor? |
| 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 |
Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and twenty-five year sentence enhancement was incorrectly affirmed |
| 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 |
Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense |
| 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 |
Whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to 'controlled substance offense', 'serious drug offense', and 'felo… |
| 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 |
Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a defen… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily mus… |
| 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 |
Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) |
| 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 |
Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? |
| 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 in denying petitioner's habeas petition |
| 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 |
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 of t… |
| 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 |
Whether the continued application of a vacated New York 'Youthful Offender' conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separate classes of… |
| 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 conviction in North Carolina state court involving the breaking and entering of outbuildings (storage sheds) that were visibly and actually padl… |
| 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 |
Whether a 'results in death' statutory enhancement can apply to a 21 U.S.C. § 846 conspiracy offense, and if so, whether that element must be agreed u… |
| 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 Congress should re-evaluate the inequity in changing the enhancement level for prior drug felonies under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)-(B) but not… |
| 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 |
Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 Petitioner's constitutional rights? |
| 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 |
Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? |
| 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 |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic |
| 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 |
Whether the categorical approach applies to determining if a state conviction triggers a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b) |
| 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 Florida's interpretation of 'essential element' is contrary to Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 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 Court violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3A1.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directive… |
| 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 the District Court erred in determining that Petitioner Allen's South Carolina Armed Robbery convictions are valid predicates under the Armed … |
| 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 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' |
| 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 |
Does an Indiana burglary conviction qualify as generic burglary? |
| 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 |
Whether a Blakely error is harmless when the jury returned a compromise verdict and the sentencing enhancement at issue required a subjective assessme… |
| 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 |
Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b) |
| 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 |
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) |
| 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 |
Whether a state-law offense qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for purposes of the career-offender enhancement of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines even … |
| 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 |
Whether the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Guidelines requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of… |
| 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 requires an element of 'the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the pe… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
whether-the-texas-offense-of-aggravated-robbery-is-a-violent-felony-under-the-armed-career-criminal-act |
| 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 |
Whether the term 'controlled substance offense' defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) is ambiguous |
| 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 |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause is unconstitutionally vague |
| 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… |
| 19-6638 |
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 |
Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 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 |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause is unconstitutionally vague due to the inclusion of 'physical force against property' as a basis for a… |
| 19-6693 |
Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty |
Is the fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses 'on occasions different from one another' an element of the ACCA for the jury to dec… |
| 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 |
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes whose elements are no broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime, is remand required if a defendan… |
| 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? |
| 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)? |
| 19-6661 |
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 |
Is the principle of separation-of-powers, which prohibits judicial encroachment on the exclusive power of Congress to make laws, violated, when a cour… |
| 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.… |
| 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)? |
| 19-612 |
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 |
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 |
Whether the new rule announced in Johnson v. United States applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (200… |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Sean Trent Barnes' decision to waive counsel and represent himself was made voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently |
| 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 its 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 |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant |
| 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 qualify as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 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 |
Whether the mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm 'in furtherance of' the conspi… |
| 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 |
Did the court of appeals erroneously dispense with the requisite categorical analysis of predicate prior convictions? |
| 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 |
did-the-pre-trial-destruction-of-evidence-by-the-state-deny-the-petitioner-his-right-to-due-process-and-a-fair-trial |
| 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 10th Circuit found substantial Innocence on and the Trial Court Dismissing 3 cases that were u… |
| 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 |
Whether the judgment should be vacated and the case remanded to the Second Circuit for consideration of whether § 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 ap… |
| 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 |
Does Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant when his appeal is still pending? |
| 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 |
Whether a commercial burglary conviction under New Mexico law categorically does not qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's… |
| 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 |
Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? |
| 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)(8)(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 make the retroactive application of the First Step Act fully retroactive creates a significant risk that thousands of pr… |
| 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 |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used in… |
| 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 |
Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or can the sentencing judge decide it? |
| 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 |
Whether the Sentencing Court erred in finding Petitioner obstructed justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct the name un… |
| 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 |
Whether the court may apply a two-level enhancement for crimes involving ten or more victims when the victim is the Government |
| 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 |
Whether a fundamental defect is sufficient to satisfy the saving clause where petitioner's erroneous sentence fell beneath the statutory maximum |
| 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 be used to enhance a 24-y… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 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 |
Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid in light of United States v. Davis |
| 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? |
| 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)(8)(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 |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering is broader than Armed Career Criminal Act burglary |
| 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 |
Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States |
| 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 |
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 'control… |
| 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 |
Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira… |
| 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 an 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) has as an element 'the use...of physical force against the person or property of another,' under 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 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 |
Whether robbery in the third degree under New York Penal Law § 160.05 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Ac… |
| 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 |
Whether Pizarro is entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sentences applicable to his drug trafficking … |
| 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 |
Whether a Texas burglary conviction qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause when the statute criminalize… |
| 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 |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §1959(a)(3) qualifies as a crime of violence for the purpose of §924(c)(3)(A) element clause |
| 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 |
| 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 utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe… |
| 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 |
Whether it is constitutionally permissible to use a prior juvenile adjudication to enhance a sentence regardless of whether the juvenile had a right t… |
| 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 |
Whether petitioner's prior simple possession drug convictions under Arizona and South Dakota state law qualify as 'prior drug felony offenses' under 2… |
| 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 |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as… |
| 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 |
Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances |
| 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 that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qualify … |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th… |
| 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 |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness |
| 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 |
Whether a Florida felony robbery conviction qualifies as a predicate offense under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause in light of interve… |
| 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 |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to satisfy the requirements of § 22… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause by directing a verdict on 18 … |
| 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 |
Whether New York's Robbery Statute § 160.15 qualifies as a Crime of Violence under the Career Offender Guideline § 4B1.2 |
| 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 |
When the record is silent as to which enhancement clause applied, what showing is a § 2255 movant required to make to prove he is entitled to relief o… |
| 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 |
Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 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) applies whe… |
| 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… |
| 18-1359 |
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 |
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 sent… |
| 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 |
When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration denying key elements of a weapons enhancement, can the defendant be enhanced without the Government meeti… |
| 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 |
Whether a state's retroactive reclassification of a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor precludes its use as a predicate offense under federal rec… |
| 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 should be reconsidered |
| 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 |
May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting the … |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) |
| 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 |
Whether the enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 that require judicial factfinding about a prior conviction to increase the mand… |
| 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 |
Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 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 |
Does a sentence-appeal waiver frustrate the remedy fashioned by this Court in U.S. v. Booker, thereby rendering the waiver unconstitutional or void as… |
| 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 |
Whether the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Part 33.37 is unconstitutional as applied at trial on June 24, 2013, denying the petitioner basic Due Pro… |
| 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 |
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… |
| 18-8760 |
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 |
Whether a sentence as a career offender (ACCA) is valid when a prior violent offense conviction (Florida battery on law enforcement), deemed unconstit… |
| 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 Mathis v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have st… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault qualifies as ACCA predicates |
| 18-8636 |
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 a defendant who succeeds in vacating a state conviction that enhanced a federal sentence may apply for resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 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 that Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offense qualifies… |
| 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 |
Whether an Illinois attempt offense that does not require the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property o… |
| 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 |
Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as 'serious drug offenses' for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) |
| 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 |
Whether the 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… |
| 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 |
Does the U.S. Probation Department have authority to apply enhancements for conduct alleged to have happened outside the jurisdiction of the United St… |
| 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 |
Can a federal court consider enhance a defendant's sentence for obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to testify on his… |
| 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 |
Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) |
| 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 made this an appeal 'Pipeline' case with First Step Act legal protections |
| 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 ca… |
| 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 |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define one or two crimes? |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit has effectively suspended the writ of habeas corpus by narrowing the circumstances under which a federal prisoner can pro… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Is the definition of 'crime of violence' in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 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 to impose 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, should apply to this case on direct review |
| 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 |
Whether it violates the United States Constitution as well as the principles of comity and federalism to treat a prior state drug conviction that is e… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th… |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced or § 3559(c)-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause throu… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the sentencing scheme under Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law is subject to the jury requirements of the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for a drug offense qualifies as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) |
| 18-7801 |
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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents by denying a certificate of appealability on whether Mr. Tannehill's § 2255 claim reli… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in finding the petitioner was an armed career criminal |
| 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 |
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 |
whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied |
| 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 |
Whether it was error to deny Rodriguez a Certificate of Appealability to pursue his Sixth Amendment claim on appeal |
| 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 |
Whether the government must prove facts necessary for a vulnerable-victim sentencing enhancement by a preponderance of the evidence |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant can prove his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the unconstitutional residual clause by relying on post-sentencing case law |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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, 530 US 466 … |
| 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 the sentencing record is silent or unclear on which ACCA clause the court relied, do individuals asserting a Johnson claim bear the burden to pr… |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner beyond the maximum punishment for the conduct he was 'accountable' for under the plea ba… |
| 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 |
Is it proper to apply a 6-level increase for a ransom demand in a kidnapping offense when not communicated? |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |
| 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 |
Whether petitioner Willis's 'B&E Occupied' is a violent felony under ACCA? |
| 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 imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable |
| 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 |
Where a completed offense satisfies the ACCA's elements clause, does the attempted commission of that offense necessarily do so as well? |
| 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) |
| 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)(8)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 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? |
| 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 |
Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments require an evidentiary hearing on disputed sentencing factors and an adequate explanation for an enhanced sentence … |
| 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 |
Did Petitioner's prior crimes qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement? |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 defendant may prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause through a process of elimin… |
| 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 |
Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction fulfills the conviction requirement under the Federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 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 |
May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Does § 851 allow the United States to be excused from the notice requirement when it receives an unexpected and disfavorable result after trial? |
| 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 |
What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 void statute can be used to increase punishment |
| 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 |
Should a crime that can be committed by reckless driving resulting in injury be a predicate offense for the Armed Career Criminal Act and its signific… |
| 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 the sentence imposed on the petitioner was procedurally unreasonable |
| 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 the Eleventh Circuit 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 … |
| 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 determinat… |
| 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 the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f… |
| 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 |
Whether the categorical approach applies in cases where the defendant was also convicted of using a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1) |
| 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 |
When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render the … |
| 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 retroactively 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 |
| 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 court's denial of petitioner's writ of habeas corpus led to a violation of the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourteen… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3) |
| 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 |
May a § 2255 defendant prove that his ACCA-enhanced sentence was based upon the residual clause through a process of elimination? |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding may prove that his enhanced sentence was based on the now-unconstitutional residual clause of the… |
| 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 |
Whether the Appeals Court and District Court erred by failing to address Petitioner's factual innocence claim |
| 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 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) |
| 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 |
Whether a Florida conviction for felony battery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA's elements clause |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's 'Pinney Dock' standard for reviewing unraised claims should be clarified |
| 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 |
Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 meet use of force' as defined in Johnson -v. United States U.S. __ (2010)? |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
May a court grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging a sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the petitioner'… |
| 18-6097 |
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 |
Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is burglary' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i1) in a way that contravenes this Court… |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct |
| 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 |
Whether Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act is unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth Amendment in light of Hurst v. Florida, Alleyne v. U… |
| 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 |
Whether it is a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals refuses to consider an in… |
| 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 |
Whether proof of proximate cause is required for the 'death results' sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B) |
| 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 |
Whether a Texas deferred adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction for sentencing enhancement |
| 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 |
Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions neither of which had the… |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA |
| 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 |
Is 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 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 |
Was the evidence presented to the jury sufficient to convict Bailey beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 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 |
Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduct sh… |
| 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 |
Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba… |
| 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 |
Whether the knowingly or intentionally' mens rea in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 960(a) applies to the drug type and quantity elements in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(… |
| 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 |
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 |
Whether a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Under the categorical approach, does a Hobbs Act conviction qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) |
| 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 detention |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-access |
| 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 is categorically a violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Did the judge violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial? |
| 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 correctly held that it is permissible to upwardly depart for the severity of the underlying offense when a defendant has al… |
| 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 |
Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed … |
| 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 |
Whether the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appealability |
| 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 |
Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th… |
| 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 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the application of sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(6) and § 2L1.1(b)(7) without requiri… |
| 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 |
Did the Third Circuit misread Castleman to erroneously require that a conviction under New York's first-degree robbery statute (N.Y. Penal Law § 160.1… |
| 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 |
Whether the lower courts improperly subjected the petitioner to an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act by arbitrarily and irrational… |
| 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 Taylor rule bars consideration of materials beyond the charging instrument in determining a defendant's qualification for e… |
| 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 |
Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg… |
| 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 |
Whether Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when state law defines 'distribution' to… |
| 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 |
Whether the ACCA's 'occasions different from one another' clause requires a sentencing court to rely solely on elemental facts, or whether it can rely… |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Whether a § 2255 movant raising a Samuel Johnson claim can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his ACCA sentence may have been based on the residua… |
| 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 |
Whether a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maximum term of imprisonme… |
| 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)-is-contrary-to-supreme-court-precedent |
| 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 |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) criminalize the defendant's subjective intent or the firearm's objective potential? |
| 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 |
Whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence |
| 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 |
Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse… |
| 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 |
Whether the definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 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 |
Whether a state robbery offense that requires only force sufficient to overcome victim resistance categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under … |
| 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 |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence in light of Johnson w… |
| 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 erred in applying the enhancement under section 2L1.1(b)(2)(B) for transporting aliens |
| 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 |
Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability to review the denial of an evidentiary hearing on petit… |
| 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 Makonnen's prior convictions for felony battery and attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon qualify as violent felonies under the A… |
| 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 |
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 v.… |
| 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 |
Whether Florida robbery is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 1… |
| 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 |
Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States and Sessions v. Dimaya |
| 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 |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner as a career offender when the offenses used to enhance the sentence were aged and not co… |
| 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 |
Whether federal bank robbery that requires only slight force is covered by the force clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) |