shepard-documents
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5877 | Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents | Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review … |
| 25-5650 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment | Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry render Erlinger errors structural, and what is the proper harmless-error test when a defendant is found guil… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 21-7657 | Kirk L. Floyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony | Whether the Georgia burglary statute is divisible for ACCA purposes |
| 21-6234 | Edward Stain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not clearly establish that a jury unanimously based it… |
| 20-7163 | Gabriel Z. Kershaw v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach charging-document controlled-substance-offense generic-judgment-records shepard-documents u.s.s.g.-§4b1.1 | Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a … |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a jur… |
| 19-5085 | Darren L. Lee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony | Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'violent felony' element of physical force, and one of which does not,… |
| 19-5089 | Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents | Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'crime of violence' element of physical force, and one of which does n… |
| 18-6256 | William Wise Mock v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | Whether a presentence investigation report can be used as a Shepard document in the categorical approach to determine career offender status |