| 25-6756 |
Jacklin Cheramy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-statute predicate-offense recidivist-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Whether, consistent with federal statute mandating the application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing, a s… |
| 25-5623 |
Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction |
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| 25A261 |
William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25A58 |
Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7460 |
Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen… |
| 24-7335 |
Curtis Harris v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Defendants who have two prior felony convictions for "controlled substance offense[s]" qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidel… |
| 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"… |
| 24A625 |
Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari death-row federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7810 |
Odell Calvin, aka Julius Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus standing state-conviction takings witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1053 |
Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6899 |
James Earl Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that Mr. Robinson's prior state conviction… |
| 23A24 |
Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 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? |
| 21-7173 |
Herman J. Snell, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice fundamental-rights jurisdictional-challenge miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. WAS VISGTAT V. OKLAHOMA, 140 S.CT. [CITATION], A COLLATERAL PROCEEDING? DID THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ENTER A NEW PROCEDURAL RULE OF LAW IN O… |
| 21-1053 |
Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
|
aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference |
During Danny Wilber's jury trial in 2005 for fatally shooting a man at a party, Wilber became increasingly belligerent with the Milwaukee County Circu… |
| 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… |
| 21-5099 |
Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction |
Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a "controlled substance" by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 20-940 |
Alaska v. Sean Wright |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction |
When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
| 20-108 |
Paul Poupart v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1983 civil-rights due-process first-amendment state-conviction supremacy-clause |
Whether the standards in Heck v. Humphrey, should continue to apply to state convictions which are deemed unconstitutional and whether the invalidatio… |
| 19-7509 |
In Re Lawrence E. Mattison |
|
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
all-writs-act ends-of-justice federal-enclave federal-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice state-conviction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio |
Whether 28 U.S.C. §1651 (the All writs Act") allows this court authority to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a clear interference with a Federal pro… |
| 19-7313 |
Dalton Crutchfield v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law |
Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7007 |
Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that… |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6601 |
Kevin Battle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime |
Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 18-1550 |
Gilberto Ramos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process federal-sentence-enhancement federal-sentencing habeas judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-remedy prior-state-sentence proposition-64 resentencing retroactive-relief sentence-enhancement state-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-sentence successful-attack |
When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a prior state sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhanceme… |
| 18-8636 |
Brian Hoskins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions |
Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United … |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-6631 |
David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability, regarding the United States Middle Distr… |
| 18-6280 |
Thomas Gilmore Stewart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion revocation state-conviction state-court-conviction supervised-release |
I. Whether a district court's decision to revoke a term of supervised release that is based upon a previous state court conviction which is being chal… |
| 18-5932 |
Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction |
Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of
a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction?
Whether the withheld … |