border-crossing

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-7560	David Darnell Whitehead v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2024-05-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence	I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", …
19-8733	Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2020-06-17	Denied	IFP	border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation	The issue presented in this Petition is whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is "official restraint" that prevents an "entry" and …
18-7050	Javier Portillo v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2018-12-17	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency	Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate and whether, when the entirety of facts presented at trial was considered, there was …