state-conviction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6756 | Jacklin Cheramy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | IFP | 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 | Whether the United States District Court for the District of Nevada properly issued a certificate of appealability for a habeas petition challenging a… |
| 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 | Whether the Third Circuit improperly denied a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal convictio… | |
| 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 | Whether a state court conviction can be challenged on federal habeas review based on claims of insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance of counse… | |
| 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 | Is the Seventh Circuit on the wrong side of a circuit split when it construes the term 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.2(b) of the Sentenci… |
| 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 | Whether the Ninth Circuit applied the correct standard for denying a federal habeas corpus petition challenging a state criminal conviction | |
| 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 | Whether the federal courts improperly denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging a state court conviction and sentence | |
| 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 |
| 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 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied the correct standard for granting a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus proceeding challengin… | |
| 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 | Did the United States Supreme Court enter a new procedural rule of law that overrules subject matter jurisdiction? |
| 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 | Whether the Seventh Circuit's invalidation of Wilber's conviction comports with the limits on federal authority to overturn State convictions under th… | |
| 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 |
| 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 proc… | |
| 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 | Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that a … |
| 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 | Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A… |
| 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 must point to an actual state-court prosecution to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sent… |
| 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 a defendant who succeeds in vacating a state conviction that enhanced a federal sentence may apply for resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-7797 | 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) |
| 18-6631 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 challen… |
| 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 Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction? |