weapon-possession
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A153 | Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | bruen drug-trafficking rahimi second-amendment supreme-court-precedent weapon-possession | Whether a conviction for possessing a weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is consistent with the Second Amendment's protection of indivi… | |
| 24-6039 | Charles Derryberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession | Should the Court require that the purpose of the informant's tip be true before it can be used to prosecute someone arising out of a stop? |
| 24A353 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession | Whether the 'in relation to' element of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires more than a mere potential to facilitate a crime of violence when a firearm is car… | |
| 23-6074 | Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession | Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo… |
| 22-5196 | Malik Holloway v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession | Whether 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 20-7936 | Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession | Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the … |
| 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? |
| 18-9367 | Michael F. Ramsey v. New York | New York | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-punishment consecutive-sentences criminal-possession criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy firearm-law intent-of-legislature johnson-v-morgenthau judicial-precedent legislative-intent misapplied-decisions penal-law single-continuous-possession weapon-possession | Whether New York, by allowing consecutive sentences for the single continuous possession of the same firearm, ignored its own precedent in Johnson v. … |
| 18-8957 | Scott Matthew Goss v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession | May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting the … |
| 18-7138 | Antonio Alvarez-Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process firearms law-enforcement-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness weapon-possession | Are these conditions unconstitutionally vague? |