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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6397 | Mark Dyer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t… |
| 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. | |
| 25-453 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-10-15 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | Whether "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful. Whether the proper composition of… |
| 25-5786 | Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-10-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review | I. Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and then rigidly applying a post-conviction custody re… |
| 25-5375 | Arturs Spila v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation | 1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)… |
| 24-7372 | Guy Cuomo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access | 1. Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer "without authorization" within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-7291 | John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation | Whether a person acts with "intent to steal or purloin" for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries … |
| 24-6799 | James Garfield Charles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial | Question not identified. |
| 24A778 | Frank H. Bynes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution healthcare-fraud medical-practice prescription-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6489 | Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation | I. Is authorization under the Controlled Substances Act defined in terms of the regulatory definition of an effective prescription or by the plain mea… |
| 24-6149 | Michael Boyer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit | 1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove … |
| 24A363 | Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Presumed Complete | attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5767 | Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation | "Coyotes" (smugglers) in Mexico duped "pollos" (would-be migrants to the United States) into believing they would be snuck across the border for a neg… |
| 24-380 | Matthew McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-intent federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation video-recording | Does a defendant produce videos depicting a minor engaged in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), … |
| 24-5661 | Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), which prohibits kidnapping with the use of any instrumentality of commerce, falls within Congress's power to regula… |
| 23-7771 | Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho | Idaho | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court | 1. Is the Idaho state court in violation of the rule in Brady v. Maryland by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing… |
| 23-1321 | Jeffrey Batio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud | Proving federal mail or wire fraud requires proving a defendant's specific intent to defraud. A defendant's good faith that his representations are tr… | |
| 23-1293 | United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 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", … |
| 23-7473 | Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard | Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of "subjective intent to threaten," as articu… |
| 23-1149 | Stephen M. Calk, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | bank-bribery commercial-value corrupt-intent criminal-intent due-process felony felony-statute statutory-interpretation thing-of-value | 1. Whether something with no commercial or objective value can constitute a "thing of value" that "exceed[s] $1,000," the receipt of which is punishab… | |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23A909 | Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Presumed Complete | bail-conditions criminal-intent criminal-procedure intentional-violation no-contact-order statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6794 | Isaac Cardona v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce… |
| 23-6681 | Danny Lowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking | Danny Ray Lowe was convicted of attempting to sex traffic two fictional minors in an undercover sing. As the Court of Appeals acknowledged, "The criti… |
| 23-6643 | Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel | When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-6481 | Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation | Did this impermissible expansion of the scope of the federal child pornography statutes, in direct contravention of both the holdings of this Court an… |
| 23-716 | Shawn Mark Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act | I. Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(1), require the government to prove that the defendant received remuneration for referring p… |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23A598 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-301 | James E. Workman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud | 1. The criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud each required proof that Workman engaged in fraudulent act… |
| 23-5645 | Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int… |
| 23-5403 | Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5362 | Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure | A. Whether the indictment is defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers. B. Whether … |
| 23-5230 | Steven Poppo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 23-5195 | Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea | In Texas, the ens rea for attempted capital murder is a specific intent to kill. The defendant did not know this. Thus, she pled guilty although she h… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7289 | Terrick Bishoff v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone … |
| 22-849 | Rickie Foy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement | Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-852 | Donald V. Watkins, Sr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-intent disclosure economic-benefits financial-disclosure insider insider-lending nominee-loan regulation-o regulatory-compliance wire-fraud | 1. Whether a bank "insider " who acknowledged receiving tangible economic benefits from a $151,739.50 bank loan made to his business associate, com… |
| 22-339 | Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Amici (5) | advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the AKS is violated only if the person offering the "remuneration * * * to induce" the purchase of federally reimbursed healthcare intends to … |
| 22-5363 | Rodney Flucas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority | Was the Jury Erroncously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a "Motivating Purpose" for Transportation of Person… |
| 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… |
| 22-5075 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 21 U.S.C. §856(a)(1), the "crack house statute", requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant, "except as authorized by… |
| 21-8287 | Michael D. Phillips v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-29 | Denied | IFP | burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing | Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder? Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al… |
| 21-8250 | Deandre McIntosh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg… |
| 21-7958 | Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing | Whether a mens rea applies to the drug-type-and-quantity elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increa… |
| 21-7720 | Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a "Scheme to Defraud" in Any Prose… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7452 | Anthony Atkinson v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-confinement criminal-intent criminal-responsibility mental-abnormality mental-hygiene-law psychiatric-evaluation volitional-impairment | 1. Whether the state of New York, Attorney General along with psychiatric examiners should be required to produce sufficient medical proof to support … |
| 21-7162 | Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence | Whether it is Consistent with this Courts holding in CAPERTON v. A. MASSEY COAL CO., 556 U.S. 868, 129 S.Ct 2541 (2009) and the Imperatives of Due Pro… |
| 21-7055 | Eugene Willis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | I. In compliance with Holloway V. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1991), is an attorney ineffective for failing to argue before the jury the Government f… |
| 21-7014 | Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea | Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction stating that for a finding of guilt, Mr. Lopez had to know that the person … |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | For more than a decade, the civil standard of care established for the practice of medicine has been utilized by federal prosecutors in criminal prose… |
| 21-6821 | Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-liability contingent-conspiracy criminal-intent federal-employees federal-jurisdiction feola-test martial-law stalinesque-martial-law subjective-belief sufficiency-challenge | 1. Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, … |
| 21-6736 | Steven R. Henson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness | 1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-5776 | Bobby John Kobito v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion | Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant … |
| 21-408 | Gertrude Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment | WHETHER PARKER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS A RESULT OF HER TRIAL… |
| 21-366 | Michael Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence | Petitioners Michael Jones hereby adopts the Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by Dr. Henry Evans and Dr. Shelton Barnes and the Questions Present… |
| 21-367 | Paula Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence | Petitioner Paula Jones hereby adopts the Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by Dr. Henry Evans and Dr. Shelton Barnes and the Questions Presented … |
| 21-5371 | James Roland Henderson v. California | California | 2021-08-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances | Question not identified. |
| 21-5105 | Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki… |
| 21-5086 | Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard | Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the "lawful course of professional practice" is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f… |
| 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… |
| 20-1681 | Shelton Barnes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence | (1) Does the Panel Decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, rendered October 28, 2020 (979 F.3d 283 (5th Cir. 2020), WL 6… |
| 20-8216 | Justin Michael Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment | 1. In Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999), this Court held that an "empty threat" of violence is not sufficient to demonstrate that a person … |
| 20-7953 | Alena Aleykina v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent due-process evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment legal-separation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | 2. Was it fair to affirm 18 U.S.C. 1519 charge where the integrity of juridical process was harmed by the prosecutor who: a. Submitted doctored indict… |
| 20-7820 | Michael J. Little v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | constructive-amendment criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process foreign-accounts green-card-holder indictment second-circuit stirone-v-united-states tax-reporting willful-violation | Whether the indictment was constructively amended to add additional undeclared "overseas" accounts not among those specifically identified on the grou… |
| 20-7529 | Brian E. Moore v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal attorney-client-privilege criminal-intent evidence obstruction threats | Question not identified. |
| 20-7243 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7171 | Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force | (A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO EVADE… |
| 20-6948 | Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6843 | Cedryck Davis v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial identity identity-evidence other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt witness-testimony | Whether Cedryck Davis's convictions for the attempt murder of Naja and Shawn Harringon should be reversed because the prosecution failed to sustain it… |
| 20-6738 | Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6594 | Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines | WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6565 | Simon Quinn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction | Reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Quinn is guilty of the offense … |
| 20-6438 | Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder | Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences of … |
| 20-6284 | D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United Stat… |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-5748 | Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-09-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court | 1. Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports crimina… |
| 20-283 | Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity | Officer Austin Bass ("Officer Bass") responded to a burglar alarm and found Patrick Greve ("Greve") outside a locked and closed nightclub, wrapped in … |
| 20-5588 | Joshua Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 20-221 | Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines | 1. Can a jury be instructed that it may convict based on a criminal defendant's conscious avoidance of knowledge of a necessary fact, without needing … |
| 20-5081 | Clarence Hoffert v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 19-8612 | Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault | The government convicted Edward Ronald Stamper of sexual abuse in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) based on a jury instruction which provided: In … |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as… |
| 19-7764 | Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United States,… |
| 19-7718 | Denny Reyes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 19-1000 | Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… | |
| 19-7011 | Carl Golden v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intent knowledge-of-elements mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states | Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty? Is Florida § 893.13 categorically a ser… |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con… |
| 19-6902 | Samir Benamor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6878 | Robert L. Bolden Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-intent elements-clause inchoate-offense mens-rea substantial-step | 1. Whether an inchoate offense, whose non-inchoate form would constitute a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A), aut… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6391 | Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act | 1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 19-6341 | Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to… |
| 19-6262 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation | 1. Since the Supreme Court has now held, in Rehaif v. United States , that in a prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove b… |
| 19-6218 | Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt | 1 DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR BY FAILING TO PROVE THE FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT ELEMENT S WITH INTENT TWO COMIT CRIME OF VIOLENCE P 2 DID THE LOWER COURT ER… |
| 19-5853 | Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings | I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. … |
| 19-5805 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | 1. Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, th… |
| 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 | California state courts have authoritatively construed the state statute punishing assault with a deadly weapon, California Penal Code $ 2a5(a)(1) and… |
| 19-5753 | Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1) To satisfy the "knowingly" and with "intent" in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), Do Courts have to prove precise "mens rea" as set forth in Rehaif v. United… |
| 19-5489 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether a defendant acts for the "purpose of. . . maintaining or increasing [his] position in an enterprise" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1959… |
| 19-5457 | Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation | Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC … |
| 19-102 | Leroy Baca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-1503 consciousness-of-wrongdoing constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-willfulness jury-anonymity mens-rea obstruction-of-justice public-trial specific-intent | 1. Twenty years ago, the First Circuit stated: "The scienter element in the obstruction statute is the subject of more confusing case law than can be … |
| 19-5098 | Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states | In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen… |
| 18-1589 | James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-27 | Denied | contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the act of an accused to delete or destroy contraband constitutes a "knowing or intentional possession" of the contraband. | |
| 18-9574 | Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-9465 | Beth Galloway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial | I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H… |
| 18-8601 | Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge | This Court should grant certiorari because there is a split in the circuits as to the proper application of a 7 level guideline enhancement for the di… |
| 18-8547 | Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington | Washington | 2019-03-25 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice | Mr. Biggs alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the defense of diminished capacity. The facts and evidence in the record… |
| 18-8281 | Michael Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit… |
| 18-7802 | Michael Hopson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy | Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner… |
| 18-7816 | Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness | Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7303 | Joel Rivera v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility | WHETHER ROSEMOND V. UNITED STATES, 134 S.Ct. 1240 (2014), WAS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AND APPLIED BY THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WHEN IT UPHELD M… |
| 18-6991 | Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation | Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges. Consequently, char… |
| 18-6950 | Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code | waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… |
| 18-6891 | Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-30 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution | Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person. |
| 18-708 | Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit | This Court has repeatedly held that a statement or omission is materially misleading, and thus fraudulent, only if it could influence the targeted dec… |
| 18-6660 | Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute because Congress intended such allegations of false advertising of nonprescript… |
| 18-6545 | Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California | California | 2018-11-02 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation | Does it matter. Appeal's Court Judge States It Consequently, whether defendant intended to commit robbery from the moment he first approached or punce… |
| 18-6299 | Jonathan Wade Dunning v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appraisal appraisal-disclosure criminal-intent duty-to-disclose joint-ownership market-value property-purchase property-sale purchase-price scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. For purposes of the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, has a defendant engaged in a "scheme or artifice to defraud" when the defendant, without … |
| 18-6198 | Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation | Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… |
| 18-6117 | Josette Buendia v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney | In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-5686 | Dwight Mundle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony | Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… |
| 18-5426 | Gabriel Rivero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5028 | Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering | Appellant was indicted for witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), which states someone is guilty if they "knowingly use intimidation, threate… |