knowledge-element
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5343 | Victor Darnell Berry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right-to-defense conviction-set-aside criminal-procedure felon-in-possession knowledge-element youth-rehabilitation-act | I. Where a conviction that is the basis for a felon in possession of a firearm charge has been set aside at the time of sentencing, does the statutory… |
| 23-268 | Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. | Texas | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation | Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas… |
| 22-7292 | Jason Edward Simpson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure due-process jury-finding jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea reasonable-doubt statutory-minimum-maximum statutory-sentencing | 1. Whether a conviction of a substantive offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") requires that a jury find beyond a rea… |
| 22-5138 | Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing | In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als… |
| 21-7918 | Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element | 1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def… |
| 21-7832 | Daniel Casamayor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), if Casamayor 's indictment charg… |
| 21-6014 | Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity | This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-5989 | Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review | Based on this Court's harmless error jurisprudence and that of seven other circuits, the government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an e… |
| 21-5748 | Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video | 1. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits are split on whether, during a plea colloquy in a child pornography case, the district judge must explain to the defen… |
| 20-6109 | Rashawn D. Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states | A. Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated when (1) t… |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | 1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… |
| 19-6682 | Zhaopeng Chen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea | Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact… |
| 19-6684 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution | Petitioner was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The indictment charged po… |