state-crime

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7839 Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co…
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…