kidnapping-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5192 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Bryan Coleman, Warden | Colorado | 2025-07-24 | Denied | IFP | illegal-seizure judicial-process kidnapping-statute law-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction warrant-clause | After law enforcement has illegally seized a person from his home —without a warrant or a recognized exception to the Warrant Clause —and consequently… |
| 25-5024 | Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la… |
| 24-7493 | Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la… |
| 24-5661 | Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), which prohibits kidnapping with the use of any instrumentality of commerce, falls within Congress's power to regula… |
| 22-6477 | Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute | Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced… |
| 20-8361 | Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (the federal kidnapping statute) requires, as an element, a nexus between the kidnapping and interstate commerce, Does a purely local… |
| 20-5078 | Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute after… |
| 19-6964 | David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights | Does "PUBLIC INTEREST" AND "JUSTICE SO REQUIRE" IMPANELING OF A "SPECIAL GRAND JURY", WHEN TRIAL PROSECUTORS COMMIT "MULTIFARIOUS FRAUD" ON THE JURORS… |