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24-4516·CRIMINAL

United States v. Harvey Lewis

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether sufficient evidence supports Hobbs Act robbery conviction; whether district court erroneously instructed jury on misprision of a felony charge; other issues.

Argument Date
May 8, 2026
Argument Time
9:00 a.m.
Panel
IV
Courtroom
Gold Courtroom (Room 348)
Lower Court Judge
Walker
Associated Cases
24-4534, 24-4575

Panel

Judge King
Judge Thacker
Judge Berner

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Harvey Lewis, No. 24-4516 (4th Cir. argued May 8, 2026)
PanelKing, Thacker & Berner, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 2 cases argued May 8, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

Between the uncredited panelists, Judge King and Judge Berner are a coin flip — 77 of 116 vs. 23 of 39 prior multi-case days with at least one opinion.

1 of the 2 opinions from this panel has been decided.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 3, 2026 and June 24, 2027, with December 13, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 173 days ago. About 85% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (438 prior subject cases + 6 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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