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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6492 | Arthur Fayne v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud | 1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis). Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 conf… |
| 25-6329 | Tommie Slack v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent | Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu… |
| 25A229 | Allen Michael Sherrill v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-08-27 | Presumed Complete | causation criminal-homicide due-process intent involuntary-manslaughter sufficiency-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7145 | Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance intent intoxication jury-trial sixth-amendment | 1. Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance of counsel at the guilt phase by failing to pursue a theory that Mr. Rieber lacked the requisite in… |
| 24-7032 | Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation | Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24A453 | Elden Don Brannan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Presumed Complete | ATF-regulation destructive-device explosive-device fireworks intent pipe-bomb | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5752 | Norman Thurber v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation | Is there a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251, since "... criminal responsibility may not be imposed without some element of … |
| 24-5240 | Bradley Dale Hull v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | IFP | federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice | Is it incumbent upon a trial court when determining whether the probative value of other-act evidence offered under Rule 404(b) is substantially outwe… |
| 23-7654 | Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine where the Government fail… |
| 23-7247 | Calvin Fair v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat | When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar… |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 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… |
| 23-6271 | Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-15 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value | The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu… |
| 23-6000 | Tyler Catlin Borg v. California | California | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder intent jury-instructions lying-in-wait murder-intent | 1. Can a person be guilty of 1st degree murder without intent to kill or injure? 2. Does CALCRIM 521 unconstitutionally omit the intent element of fi… |
| 23-5907 | Brian Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft | Does a conviction for carjacking by "force and violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite 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 … |
| 22-7204 | Eriston Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charges evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent intent-standard not-guilty rule-404(b) rule-404b | Each Court of Appeals has instituted its own multi-pronged test for determining the admissibility of extrinsic evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b), cr… |
| 22-6920 | Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony | Pre. urstodys, Somedute sheuated on We 20\& order, The Gimina® Ur Way aod Noring tap Wer Son ¥o Fates on Quar lb) old, per The 2OIA order The, Missour… |
| 22-6653 | Jayson Montgomery v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | IFP | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent | To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful… |
| 22-700 | Mark Howerton v. Texas | Texas | 2023-01-26 | Denied | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct | This Court has long held that a mistrial declared in the face of manifest necessity does not generally prohibit a retrial under the Fifth Amendment. W… | |
| 22-660 | Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14)Relisted (2) | affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law intent personnel-action retaliation retaliatory-intent sarbanes-oxley whistleblower whistleblower-protection | Under the burden-shifting framework that governs Sarbanes-Oxley cases, must a whistleblower prove his employer acted with a "retaliatory intent" as pa… |
| 22-646 | Sergey Pustelnik, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | artificiality fraud intent legal-standard market-manipulation scienter securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation | Whether scienter alone may satisfy the tradition ally separate artificiality requirement to establish market manipulation? |
| 22-6503 | Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment | 1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet… |
| 22-497 | Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-28 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a l… |
| 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… |
| 21-6986 | John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel | Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where (1) Atlas was charged with making crimin… |
| 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… |
| 21-5551 | Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support, the finding of guilt, in accordance with La. R.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 20-7171 | 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… |
| 20-7122 | Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states | Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement that requires one to know more than that firearms are "tools of the trade" for drug traff… |
| 20-7062 | Alfred L. Cross v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining | Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t… |
| 20-7055 | Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard | QUESTION 1: Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that … |
| 20-7020 | Richie Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-6660 | Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola | I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui… |
| 20-824 | Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing … |
| 20-690 | Michael Sang Han v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-11-18 | Denied | circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law | May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern… | |
| 20-6296 | David Lague v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent prior-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b statistical-comparison statistics unlawful-acts unlawful-intent | Rule 404(b) prohibits evidence of a defendant's uncharged acts that "might adversely reflect on the actor's character," unless the evidence helps prov… |
| 20-445 | Matthew Anderson v. John Bonnewell, et al. | Delaware | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment civil-rights correctional-officers due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force intent prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment | 1. Whether a trial court can disregard the five factors set forth in Whitley v. Albers, 475 U.S. 312 (1986), in an Eighth Amendment excessive force ca… |
| 20-368 | Eric Christopher Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment appellate-counsel constructive-possession contraband due-process fifth-amendment intent physical-evidence presentence-report residence | I. Does constructive possession established without showing intent or any physical evidence linking defendant to contraband found in a storage bedroom… |
| 20-5597 | Rory Swenson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black | May speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence be criminalized as a "true threat" unprotected by t… |
| 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… |
| 20-5328 | Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington | Washington | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony | A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws" duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin… |
| 19-8517 | Edward F. Novotny, III v. Plexus Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy civil-procedure claim-litigation debtor-disclosure disclosure estoppel intent intent-standard judicial-estoppel judicial-presumption third-party | Courts of appeals are divided on the question presented in this case and left open in New Hampshire v. Maine; whether a debtor who has inadvertently f… |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. 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 … |
| 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… |
| 19-7138 | Michael Blankenship v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony | 1. Whether in a prosecution for illegally dumping waste into a creek, where a major part of the Government's case was based on eyewitness testimony ab… |
| 19-826 | The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger | This petition poses two questions: first, whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim; and second, what level of culpable i… |
| 19-7113 | Raynard Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… |
| 19-7079 | Bryan Mark Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence elements-clause intent intentional-force statutory-interpretation | Whether federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) can be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) … |
| 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… |
| 19-7011 | 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… |
| 19-783 | Nathan Van Buren v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (22)Relisted (2) | circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access | Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 19-6979 | Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… |
| 19-6354 | Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 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… |
| 19-388 | Mimi Korman v. Julio Iglesias | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | where a district court dismisses the action on th civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-estoppel pleading-stage pleadings property-rights standing takings | Is a civil plaintiff deprived of property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, where a district … | |
| 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… |
| 19-5404 | 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… |
| 19-5344 | Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) | Whether the evidence was sufficient to convict the Petitioner for witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1) and two interrelated charge… |
| 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. | |
| 18-9746 | Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Georgia | 2019-06-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing | Whether a prosecutor may secure a death sentence by presenting knowingly false and/or misleading argument to the jury that argues falsehoods about the… |
| 18-9301 | Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use | Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-8999 | Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation | Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), t… |
| 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… |
| 18-8533 | Lance Williams v. California | California | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description | 1. How can the state courts deny appeal on a issue of prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on a uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report of … |
| 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… |
| 18-1130 | David W. Charron v. Glenn S. Morris, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-procedure contempt contempt-sanctions debt-discharge discharge discharge-of-debts due-process intent non-dischargeable non-dischargeable-debt non-dischargeable-debts statutory-interpretation | Whether contempt sanctions are per se non-dischargeable debts under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6)? |
| 18-8001 | William Fykes v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2019-02-15 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-instructions post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination | Whether Petitioner's rights under the due process of law of the US Constitution's XIV Amendment and W.Va. Constitution Art. III, §10, were violated wh… |
| 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) … |
| 18-7233 | Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition | Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-6801 | Van McDuffy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation | What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-651 | Jason Craig Montgomery v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | 18-usc-2422b attempt coerce criminal-attempt entice induce intent interstate-communication interstate-communications minor minor-solicitation persuade sexual-activity statutory-interpretation substantial-step telecommunications-act | I. Does a defendant attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b), where the defendant communicates… | |
| 18-6679 | Donate Graham v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing forfeiture-doctrine giles-v-california intent witness-procurement | Whether the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause encompasses acts of wrongful witness procurement done by alleged co-conspir… |
| 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… |
| 18-6497 | Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error | Did the pury reasonably, logically and legally infer from the evid1. ence presented, that petitioner was guilty of violating the statue beyond a reaso… |
| 18-6058 | Donald Lee Reeves, III v. California | California | 2018-09-24 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial felony-murder insufficient-evidence intent robbery special-circumstance | I. Whether petitioner's due process right to a fair trial was violated when he was convicted of robbery in Count 4 based upon insufficient evidence th… |
| 18-5915 | Michael Hill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempt categorical-approach illinois intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step use-of-force violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act treats as a violent felony felonies that require the use of force. In Illinois, as in many states and as for many federa… |
| 18-5904 | Donavan Cross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence | (1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-271 | Zachary N. Trost, et ux. v. Sherry Trost | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge burden-of-proof discharge intent intent-standard kawaauhau-v-geiger non-dischargeable-debt restatement-of-torts wrongful-act wrongful-conduct | I. For a debt arising out of unlawful conduct to be considered non-dischargeable in bankruptcy pursuant to Kawaauhau v. Geiger, 523 U.S. 57 (1998), wh… |
| 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… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c… |
| 18-5238 | Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5164 | George Adrien Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |