| 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 … |
| 25-5460 |
Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony |
In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 24-5409 |
Maxsony Coissy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the categorical approach, the elements of a prior state conviction are determined by judicial interpretations in effect at the time of … |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 23-6419 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process free-speech jurisdiction recidivism standing state-law-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Question not identified |
| 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… |
| 23-5998 |
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… |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional |
| 23-5655 |
Christopher T. Mallett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arkansas-robbery-statute armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach elements-clause predicate-offense robbery-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Arkansas robbery statute categorically qualifies as a predicate violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause |
| 23-5439 |
Steven Huffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony |
Whether knowing conduct not intentionally designed to harm a targeted person satisfies the force clause definition of violent felony in 924(e)(2)(B)(1… |
| 23-5154 |
Justin Christopher Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense |
Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence? |
| 22-7872 |
Carmelita Barela v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery conviction can be sustained where the only claimed use of 'violent force' is coughing and claiming to have 'Covid' while s… |
| 22-1190 |
Lavelle Hatley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony |
Whether a prior conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 22-7692 |
Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony |
Whether an assault offense that requires a reckless mens rea and is used to prosecute drunk drivers qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Ca… |
| 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)? |
| 22-7245 |
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… |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty constrains a federal court's interpretation of conflicting state-law decisions |
| 22-6965 |
Seth Grant Huntington v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law-battery eighth-circuit-interpretation johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states state-assault-statute statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether treating a state assault statute as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act when that statute requires no more than the intent … |
| 22-6867 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 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 |
| 22-6573 |
Delamon A. Marshall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause constitutional-law domestic-violence firearm-possession statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction for domestic violence qualify as a violent felony under the ACCA? |
| 22-6578 |
Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 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… |
| 22-5857 |
Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary |
| 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 |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a 'violent felony,' 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), fede… |
| 22-5015 |
Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony |
Whether Jackson received due process |
| 21-8195 |
Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois offense of aggravated discharge of a firearm qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act after Borden v. Un… |
| 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… |
| 21-7657 |
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 |
| 21-7583 |
Larry Lowery, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 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… |
| 21-6991 |
Lloyd George Kenney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act california-penal-code-207 categorical-analysis criminal-statute divisibility force-clause implicit-threat-of-arrest kidnapping violent-felony |
Whether California's simple kidnapping offense as it existed in 1974 was a 'violent felony' under the 'force clause' definition of 'violent felony' fo… |
| 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… |
| 21-6640 |
Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to mova… |
| 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 |
| 21-5975 |
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. §… |
| 21-5501 |
Michael David McCall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 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 |
| 20-8082 |
Eric Deshan Adams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 20-8053 |
William Leroy Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence |
| 20-7984 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether Texas simple robbery remains a violent felony |
| 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? |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-7326 |
Tyrone Valentine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-statute criminal-statutes drunk-driving extreme-indifference physical-force violent-felony |
Whether criminal statutes encompassing drunk driving constitute a 'violent felony' under 18 U.S.C. |
| 20-7348 |
Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony |
Does a criminal offense without mens rea qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-7280 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a federal court is bound by a state supreme court's interpretation of a statute of conviction for Armed Career Criminal Act purposes |
| 20-7188 |
Sedric Rashad Marion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit north-carolina-law taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-7091 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-6969 |
Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA |
| 20-6941 |
Frank Joseph Dodge v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit generic-burglary stitt-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career … |
| 20-6773 |
Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony |
Is Texas aggravated robbery a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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)? |
| 20-6461 |
Juan Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6306 |
Phillip L. Gilliam v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6314 |
Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6225 |
Michael David Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Is Texas aggravated assault a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6137 |
Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-5993 |
Keith A. James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force-clause impersonation intimidation physical-force subjective-intimidation violent-felony |
Does a prior offense categorically qualify as a violent felony under ACCA's force clause if it only requires a use of 'intimidation' that can be satis… |
| 20-5798 |
Jose Velasquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act common-law constructive-force robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony |
Does the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which ignores the common law requirements of constructive-force robbery, conflict with the Court's adoption of the … |
| 20-5774 |
Archie Manzanares v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's analysis, which relies on facts rather than elements, abrogates the Supreme Court's holdings that the categorical approach… |
| 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 … |
| 20-5584 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 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 |
| 20-5157 |
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 |
| 20-5144 |
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… |
| 20-5075 |
Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony |
Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-8929 |
Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-8838 |
Magdaleno Medina, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255h aggravated-assault-as-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states constitutional-rule johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-barrier section-2244b4 successive-motion violent-felony williams-v-united-states |
armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,reckless-conduct,serious-bodily-injury,successive-habeas-petition,jurisdiction |
| 19-8810 |
Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does North Carolina's offense of felonious breaking and/or entering qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-8741 |
Kelly David Ankeny, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon force-requirement oregon-robbery physical-force second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Oregon Robbery in the Second Degree (Or. Rev. Stat. § 164.405(1)(a)) is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-8646 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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… |
| 19-8564 |
David Ojeda v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokeling v. United States |
| 19-1264 |
Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
|
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony |
Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree… |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7504 |
Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7387 |
Travis Miles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry entry-definition generic-burglary statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-7409 |
Melvin Pryor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a 'violent felony' having as an … |
| 19-7363 |
Richard Grady Romans v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony |
Whether a drug conspiracy committed on an occasion different from the drug distribution offenses committed during and in furtherance of that same cons… |
| 19-7326 |
Jimmy Lee Allred v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1513 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury categorical-approach modified-categorical-approach taylor-v-united-states violent-felony violent-force witness-retaliation |
when-to-use-categorical-approach |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery is a 'violent felony' under the ACCA elements clause |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7076 |
Cedrick Ponder v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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) |
| 19-7003 |
Quintin Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony |
Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6941 |
Michael Collins v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony |
Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6858 |
David Lamont Liddell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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 |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Do having one violent felony and one controlled substance conviction qualify citizens to be a career offender? |
| 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 |
| 19-6671 |
Kyle Dwayne Boleyn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6672 |
Erwin Keith Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 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)? |
| 19-6664 |
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)? |
| 19-6633 |
Adrian Ausberry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony |
Does an offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a crime of violence under the identical force clauses in U.S.S.G. § 4… |
| 19-6504 |
Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a 'violent felony' for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6405 |
Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony |
Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Ar… |
| 19-6370 |
Troy Bennett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony |
Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence is a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6279 |
Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force |
| 19-6209 |
John Hudson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certificate of Appealability in this § 2255 case |
| 19-6124 |
Jerry Scott Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that North Carolina assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious i… |
| 19-6114 |
Antwoyn Anderson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony |
Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § … |
| 19-373 |
James Walker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 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… |
| 19-5772 |
Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether an offense that does not require, at a minimum, a conscious disregard of a risk of harm, lacks an element of the 'use of physical force agains… |
| 19-5629 |
Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony |
Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-133 categorically qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the force clause of the Armed Career … |
| 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 |
| 19-5331 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony |
Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its 'prior panel precedent rule? |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a serious drug offense under the ACCA requires the same categorical approach used in the determination of a violent felon… |
| 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? |
| 19-5134 |
Kouwanii Brunstorff v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault attempt attempt-crime force-clause new-york physical-force second-circuit second-degree statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Is an attempt to commit a categorically violent felony, in this case, assault in the second degree in New York, categorically violent under the force … |
| 19-5078 |
Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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,… |
| 19-5024 |
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… |
| 18-9830 |
Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause |
| 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… |
| 18-9547 |
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 … |
| 18-9343 |
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… |
| 18-9327 |
Aceshunn Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt force-clause new-york-law new-york-penal-law second-degree-robbery violent-felony |
Whether an attempt to commit a violent felony is a violent felony under the ACCA force clause |
| 18-9248 |
Preston Phillips v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by 'any means' like an omission, qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Careener Criminal … |
| 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… |
| 18-8941 |
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) |
| 18-8899 |
Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony |
Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definit… |
| 18-8874 |
Anthony Jerome White, aka Dean Braithwaite, aka Carlos Valentine, aka Anthony Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach deadly-weapon elements-clause second-degree-aggravated-assault second-degree-assault third-circuit-court-of-appeals violent-felony |
Whether Whites Pennsylvania Conviction For Second Degree Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Is Categorically Qualify As A Violent Felony Under Th… |
| 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… |
| 18-8528 |
Willie Robertson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act force-clause state-robbery state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Is a state robbery offense that includes 'as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' categorically a 'violent felony'… |
| 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… |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove the sentencing court relied on the residual clause to be entitled to relief under Johns… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a violent felony under the ACCA and a crime of violence under the Federal Se… |
| 18-7984 |
James Scott Ervin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due-process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determine… |
| 18-7838 |
William Floyd Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act's violent fel… |
| 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 |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
Whether a crime which does not require the actual use of violent force can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the ACCA |
| 18-7577 |
Roland Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether petitioner's 240-month sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) must be vacated because it is unclear whether he was sentenced unde… |
| 18-7443 |
Wallace Thornton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act bodily-harm curtis-johnson-v-united-states elements-clause eleventh-circuit florida-battery statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously held that a Florida conviction for aggravated battery is a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the … |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7432 |
Cornell W. Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 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? |
| 18-7232 |
Arthur Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's e… |
| 18-7233 |
Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition |
Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 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? |
| 18-7096 |
Reinaldo Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony |
Is the 'touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States and Mathis v. United States, permitting… |
| 18-7113 |
Dewey Hylor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony |
Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery is not a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause |
| 18-7116 |
Lonnie Anthony Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act curtis-johnson-v-united-states denard-stokeling-v-united-states edwin-deshazior-v-united-states florida-statute florida-statutes johnson-definition physical-force second-degree-murder violent-felony |
Whether second-degree murder in Florida is a 'violent felony' within the meaning of the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) |
| 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… |
| 18-6859 |
James Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States apply to offenses analyzed under the 'force clause' and… |
| 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? |
| 18-6767 |
Brent Galbreath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition |
Whether a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant can show that his sentence is infected with error under Johnson when the sentencing … |
| 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… |
| 18-6612 |
James Pinkney v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the… |
| 18-6547 |
Christopher Brooks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-6424 |
Walter Lee Deiter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony |
Whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-6375 |
Michael Whisby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-provision collateral-review mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness stokeling-v-united-states vagueness-doctrine violent-felony |
Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines |
| 18-6369 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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 |
| 18-6177 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 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… |
| 18-370 |
Marlon Haight v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) |
| 18-6025 |
Rene Borrero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-robbery due-process state-law state-statute statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether Florida's State attempted robbery offense that includes as an element' the common law requirement of overcoming 'victim resistance' is categor… |
| 18-5965 |
Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force |
Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force |
| 18-5940 |
Moises Perez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act common-law-resistance force-clause resistance state-appellate-courts state-robbery state-robbery-offense violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the common law requirement of overcoming resistance' is categorically a 'violent felony' u… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johason motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5915 |
Michael Hill v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether attempt to commit a violent felony is itself a violent felony |
| 18-5838 |
Hosea Swopes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes 'as an element' the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by … |
| 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 |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA |
| 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 |
| 18-5612 |
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 |
| 18-5561 |
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… |
| 18-5445 |
Jason Lee Pyles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i), and whether the s… |
| 18-5435 |
Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony |
Whether federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act's elements clause |
| 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… |
| 18-5393 |
Shane McMahan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony |
Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erroneously determined that the statutory definition of a 'violent felony' under the 'elements cla… |
| 18-5329 |
Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a violent felony' under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of John… |
| 18-5288 |
Robert Serrano v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force johnson-definition physical-force state-robbery state-robbery-offense victim-resistance violent-felony |
Whether a state robbery offense that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force is a violent felony under … |
| 18-5263 |
Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony |
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… |
| 18-5232 |
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 … |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of crime of violence' in U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2) constitutes procedural error in light of J… |
| 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… |
| 18-5092 |
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 |
| 18-5008 |
Autrey Canadate v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
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Whether the Florida offense of attempted armed robbery categorically requires the use of 'violent force' to qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Ar… |