age-of-consent
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A586 | Jonathan Harrelson v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-11-18 | Application | affirmative-defense age-of-consent criminal-intent minor-victim prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-rape | Question not identified. | |
| 25-150 | Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 24-5329 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5156 | Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 23A1154 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape | Question not identified. | |
| 23A835 | Alif Jan Adil v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5191 | Michael McShan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 age-of-consent child-pornography consent-standard federal-law self-produced-images sexual-relationship state-law | Whether the age of consent under state law is relevant to deciding whether a person produced child pornography under federal law by requesting self-pr… |
| 22-7237 | Eric Grzywinski v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen… |
| 22-5355 | Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age | I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 21-7365 | Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | 1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the … |
| 21-7330 | Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-829 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 21-5002 | Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations | An undercover officer created a fake social media profile for a fictitious 18-year-old woman on a website where a user must expressly represent her ag… |
| 20-6761 | Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony | Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 19-8592 | Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to determine whether she obstructed justice under Guidel… |
| 19-7075 | Matthew Rouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct | Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment, which is grounded in the long-standing exemption for speech integral to criminal condu… |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-585 | Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations | Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover … |
| 19-6072 | Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington | Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1), Indecency with a Child, and 22.011(a)(2), Sexual Assault of a Child, two statutory rape offenses that criminalize … |
| 19-5771 | Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 18-8469 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-6755 | Daederick Lacy v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors | Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years? Does the statute require proo… |