knowledge-requirement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5904 | Lawrence Ray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus criminal-statute enterprise-definition knowledge-requirement rico-conspiracy sex-trafficking | 1. Whether, in a RICO conspiracy prosecution, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), the government must prove the existence of a de facto enterprise that affects commer… |
| 24-6994 | Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 23-6555 | Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 22-398 | Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief | Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs… |
| 22-40 | Isiah Dozier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony | The questions presented for the Supreme Court concern the Constitutional right of a Criminal Defendant to call a witness in his own defense at trial a… |
| 21-8250 | Deandre McIntosh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg… |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-5077 | Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 20-7909 | Juan Pablo Price v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense, such that the government must prove both that the def… |
| 20-7394 | Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-6314 | Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6137 | Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-5057 | Ledinson Chavez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate | Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 19-7919 | Darius Latrell King v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922(g) 9th-circuit-appeal bench-trial felon-in-possession knowledge-requirement prohibited-status stipulated-facts | 1. Mr. King was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm after a stipulated facts bench trial where the only stipulated fact related t… |
| 19-6262 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation | 1. Since the Supreme Court has now held, in Rehaif v. United States , that in a prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove b… |
| 18-9071 | Jason Moody v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of thei… |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |