intent-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-5293 | Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction cyberstalking emotional-distress first-amendment intent-standard true-threat | Whether the Third Circuit's decision affirming Petitioner's conviction is erroneous because the evidence in the record was insufficient to establish t… |
| 24-5154 | Joel Jacobo Sanchez v. Brandon Kelly | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-murder aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent-standard jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences post-conviction-relief | Was petitioner's post-conviction counsel ineffective for not arguing that petitioner's trial counsel failed object to a "natural and probable conseque… |
| 22-7437 | Kevin Darrell Miller v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contemporaneous-conduct criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-use evidence evidence-admissibility intent-standard mens-rea possession | Whether, in a drug distribution trial, evidence of a defendant's drug use and simple possession is admissible to prove mens rea if the use and possess… |
| 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… |
| 22-434 | Slade Alan Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-09 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, … | |
| 22-110 | Julian D. Schmidt v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the ambiguous phrase "in the presence of a child" require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of phy… |
| 20-7235 | Michael Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 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 … |
| 20-457 | MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury | The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 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… |
| 20-5328 | 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… |
| 20-5081 | Clarence Hoffert v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 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… |
| 19-939 | Stephen Gustus v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense. | |
| 19-7421 | Lawyer J. Henderson v. Kevin Franklin, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandoned-claim bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition chapter-7-trustee civil-rights claim-abandonment disclosure due-process inadvertent-disclosure intent-standard judicial-estoppel presumption-of-deceit pro-se-litigant standing | 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… |
| 19-5093 | 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… |
| 18-1182 | Scott Ogle v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 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… |
| 18-8043 | 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… |
| 18-271 | 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… |
| 18-132 | Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation | Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ… |