federal-criminal-statute

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A415 Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-1203 Bernhard Jakits v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Response Waived criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the district court's instructions to the jury regarding the statutory terms "sexually explicit conduct" and "lascivious exhibition" were …
24A922 John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Presumed Complete 18-USC-661 federal-criminal-statute intent-to-steal knowing-deprivation larceny special-maritime-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24-843 Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) provides that "Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually exp…
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?
23A1059 Jackson Jacob v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-29 Presumed Complete anti-kickback-statute federal-criminal-statute healthcare-conspiracy medical-services out-of-network-billing reimbursement Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b) extend to services paid for by private health insurers?
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.
23-918 Ranito Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical …
23-803 Shannon Donoho v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Relisted (4) child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b…
22-7527 Adam Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ…
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the Warden Court's understanding of the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a Conclusion feed date in its den…
20-6841 Steven Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E…
20-5904 Tarahrick Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)IFP 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act.
20-5585 Denis Nikolla v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to…
19-7637 Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or …
19-5198 Robert Rang v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica…
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for …