general-intent
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-7818 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach, a federal offense that incorporates by reference the commission of an underlying offense is divisibl… |
| 21-6946 | Gregory Lozado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing | Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6737 | James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | First Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court | 1. Pursuant to 26 C.F.R. § 1.183, whether the lower courts' errored when framing decision under the doctrine of general-intent; using subjective deduc… |
| 21-5853 | Noah Gaston v. Maine | Maine | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent | 1. Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it does not require the state to prove beyon… |
| 20-7081 | Nijul Quadir Alexander v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence element-clause general-intent intimidation sentencing-enhancement | Did the Third Circuit err in holding that "Federal Bank Robbery is a Crime of Violence under the Element Clause of 18 U-S.C. §924(c )(3)( A) of this C… |
| 20-5002 | Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health | Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 19-8195 | Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | IFP | assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-7569 | Stanley Noel Ames v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent intent sentencing-standard specific-intent | Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that federal bank robbery is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this C… |
| 19-7067 | Michael Baird Jordan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that bank robbery by intimidation is less culpable than a specific in… |
| 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… |
| 19-5404 | Steven Hoff v. California | California | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-first-degree-murder due-process due-process-clause evidence-code general-intent intent jury-instructions mistake-or-accident premeditation uncharged-misconduct uncharged-offense | I. Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury is instructed that it can consider evidence regarding an uncharged, general intent offense in determ… |
| 19-5093 | Jason Ellis Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 18-9522 | Renee Lopez-Galvan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8537 | Daniel Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8536 | Elmar K. Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8525 | Robert Brian Winston v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8330 | Martin Fitzgerald Connors v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8313 | John Allen Newton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence offense fails to require any intentional use, attempted use, or threatened use of violen… |
| 18-8245 | Gary Casdell Fite v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent general-intent-crime section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-8043 | Victor Alanis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force c… |
| 18-8026 | Sergio Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-criminal-law general-intent intent-standard intimidation statutory-interpretation | Can reasonable jurists conclude that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) qualifies as a crime of violence under the force cla… |
| 18-7883 | Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing | 1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
| 18-7838 | William Floyd Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a general inte… |
| 18-7836 | Michael Travis Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) is … |
| 18-5036 | Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |