deliberate-ignorance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7523 | Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Peitioner direct review where the district court erred when it instrcuted the jury o… |
| 24-841 | David W. Suetholz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) that incorporates an objective yet "ambiguous" standard… |
| 21-1326 | United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-05 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 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… |
| 20-6481 | Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea | The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea: (1) to e… |
| 19-6682 | Zhaopeng Chen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea | Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact… |
| 19-6375 | Giam Nguyen, Anna Bagoumian, and Donovan Simmons v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process deliberate-ignorance due-process harmless-error jury-instructions medicare-fraud reverse-404(b) reverse-404b-evidence | 1. Whether the Petitioners were deprived of their Fifth Amendment right of Due Process to present a defense by the District Court's exclusion of the r… |
| 19-5436 | Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 18-9712 | Noe Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | (1) What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new t… |