element-of-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7074 | Miguel Angel Ortiz v. Texas | Texas | 2025-04-25 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction | Whether the language in a reoccurring jury instruction, upon which there is a split of authority, violates due process by failing to give effect to th… |
| 20-6662 | Ian D. Goolsby v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove not o… |
| 19-7705 | Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver | 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |