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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6954 | Natasha Nicole Newberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1791 contraband criminal-attempt federal-prison mens-rea substantial-step | Whether an inmate's intercepted letter discussing introduction of contraband inside a federal prison constitutes a "substantial step" sufficient to su… |
| 25-6932 | Illiana Grigoriou v. Florida | Florida | 2026-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-threats due-process first-amendment mens-rea overbreadth void-for-vagueness | 1. The dialogue between Petitioner (a 19 year old girl) and ZF (a 20 year old male) show sarcasm, hyperbole, venting of frustration but not true threa… |
| 25-6742 | Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea | 1. Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance under 21 USCS 846 and 841(a) fails to state an offense where it plac… |
| 25-6714 | Ivan Granillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | IFP | criminal-law federal-crime immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation transportation | What mens rea is required for the element that the defendant transport or move the noncitizen "in furtherance " of a violation of law ? |
| 25-6627 | Gerald Blaise II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | IFP | appellate-waiver civil-rights-restoration felony-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea | 1. Whether a defendant previously convicted of a felony offense violates 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) & 924(a)(2) when, at the time that he possesses a fire… |
| 25-6582 | Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25-6516 | Auburn Calloway v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process equal-protection judicial-disqualification mens-rea sentence-reduction | Whether the appellate affirmance of the district court's sentence reduction denial overlooked A) that the district court was disqualified because the … |
| 25-6424 | Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition | I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric… |
| 25A623 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6169 | Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation | A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who… |
| 25-5796 | Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex… |
| 25-5680 | David Petersen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus aiding-and-abetting circuit-split constitutional-rights mens-rea specific-intent | 1. Whether the mens rea and actus reus requirements for aiding and abetting liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2 demand proof of specific intent and affirma… |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… | |
| 25-5393 | Ross Farca v. California | California | 2025-08-18 | Denied | IFP | assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment | I. Is California's Assault Weapon Control Act: §30605, §30600, §30800 & §30950 constitutional, especially when Prosecution "Firearm Expert" conceded t… |
| 25-160 | Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea | 1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, … |
| 25-150 | Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 25A144 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | congressional-subpoena criminal-statute executive-privilege mens-rea separation-of-powers willful-conduct | Whether the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 to require only intentional conduct, rather than knowledge of unlawfulness,… | |
| 25-5117 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances jury-instructions medical-purpose mens-rea plain-error subjective-intent | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), this Court answered the question on whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substance… |
| 24-1220 | Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b… |
| 24-6822 | Jorge Almeida v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mens-rea mental-disease specific-intent | I. Almeida received Ineffective Assistance of Counsel as a result of his trial counsel's strategy of conceding guilt to lesser included offenses inste… |
| 24-6749 | Foster Lee Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence intent-determination mens-rea | 1. Does the two officer's testimony at trial, particularly Sergeant Helms' testimony establish the required mens rea for the offense? 2. How does the… |
| 24-6639 | Mario Ayala Alfaro v. California | California | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law-infant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jurisdictional-defect mens-rea | 1. Whether punishing a common-law infant in violation of a substantive rule of criminal procedure when devoid of the requisite knowledge and guilty me… |
| 24-900 | Parvez Anjum Qureshi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process jury-instructions mens-rea | Where the district court misinforms and errone ously instructs the jury as to the mens rea requirement for Title 21 U.S.C. § 841( a), in violation of … |
| 24-6585 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent | Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant h… |
| 24A785 | Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea penalty-phase sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-856 | Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Granted | CVSGAmici (31)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act | 1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting. 2. Whether,… |
| 24-841 | David W. Suetholz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability deliberate-ignorance mens-rea physician-prosecution prescribing-standards statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a deliberate ignorance instruction in a physician prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) that incorporates an objective yet "ambiguous" standard… |
| 24-6489 | Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation | I. Is authorization under the Controlled Substances Act defined in terms of the regulatory definition of an effective prescription or by the plain mea… |
| 24-6299 | Anthony Fisher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction deferred-judgment felon-in-possession firearms-restriction mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, in reviewing Mr. Fisher's conviction for possession of ammunition as a convicted felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 (a… |
| 24-5880 | Eric Schmidt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24A392 | Rhobashi Holmes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5767 | Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation | "Coyotes" (smugglers) in Mexico duped "pollos" (would-be migrants to the United States) into believing they would be snuck across the border for a neg… |
| 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 … |
| 24-5700 | Andersen Rable v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea | 1. Whether the District Court, Erred When It Refused to Allow Evidence of the Fact That the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (hereinafter ATF), … |
| 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… |
| 24-5646 | Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | 1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of n… |
| 24-5599 | David Martins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-knowledge drug-prosecution federal-sentencing mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) prosecution, the knowingly mens rea contained in section 841(a)(1) also requires the government to prove that the … |
| 24-5578 | Randy Lamartiniere v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | IFP | administrative-delegation controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | 1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of n… |
| 24-247 | Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mens-rea vehicular-homicide | Does this Court's clearly established precedent require an explanation and understanding of the elements of each charge to which a defendant pleads gu… |
| 24A184 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act florida-law mens-rea retroactive-interpretation sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5322 | Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-14 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense | Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede… |
| 24A123 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense | Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this… | |
| 24-5156 | Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 24-5098 | Gerald Smith v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5042 | Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute | If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a… |
| 24-5040 | Juan Alberto Ortiz-Orellana v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted use but can be committed by accidental means or by fa has as an element the use or threatened use of physical force bodily-injury crime-of-violence felony-murder force-clause mens-rea modified-categorical-approach physical-force premeditated-murder use-of-force | Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence" if it "has as an element the use, at-tempted use, or threatened use of phy… |
| 24-5013 | Jonathan Feliz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-7818 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisibility general-intent mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach, a federal offense that incorporates by reference the commission of an underlying offense is divisibl… |
| 23A1138 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | criminal-statute divisibility force-clause mens-rea section-924(c) sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1129 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Amici (1) | contempt-of-congress criminal-statute knowledge-of-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfully | Question not identified. |
| 23-1293 | United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-7632 | Cordero Passley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing | Whether, for a defendant to commit a "willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing" that constitutes first degree murder (as opposed to se… |
| 23-7560 | David Darnell Whitehead v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | I. IN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLING CASE, WHAT CONSTITUTES BRINGING TO OR ENTERING THE UNITED STATES "AT A PLACE OTHER THAN A DESIGNATED PORT OF ENTRY", … |
| 23A1040 | Al Dorsey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7532 | In Re Keith Hager | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus | WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID … | |
| 23-1168 | Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-approach crime-of-violence mens-rea predicate-offense racketeering-enterprise vicar VICAR-statute | The question presented is whether, when a defendant's § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, a court must apply the categorical approac… | |
| 23-7241 | Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | (1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 23-7222 | Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), the Government must–in order to separate wrongful acts from innocent acts–offer direct evidence … |
| 23-7173 | John Lee Barlow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7114 | Richard Marschall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-mislabeling due-process felony fifth-amendment food-and-drug-administration mens-rea recidivist recidivist-enhancement strict-liability | 1. Whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment mandates a mens rea term for the felony recidivist enhancement, 21 U.S.C. § 333(a)(2), of the… |
| 23A866 | Nicholas Newman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | assault-statute collateral-attack-waiver federal-officer mens-rea plea-agreement recklessness | 1. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether assault against a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed with a mens rea of reckless… | |
| 23-928 | Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states | (i) Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), which prohibits the "harbor[ing]" of anyone who is in the United States illegally, … | |
| 23-918 | Ranito Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical … |
| 23-6790 | James Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the … |
| 23-6673 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 454 (2022), this Court held that to convict an authorized person of distributing a controlled substance under … |
| 23-6681 | Danny Lowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking | Danny Ray Lowe was convicted of attempting to sex traffic two fictional minors in an undercover sing. As the Court of Appeals acknowledged, "The criti… |
| 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… |
| 23-6531 | Terrance Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-review mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 00hcVVvLC iht ddrtricrt coox-v trct6 vo $\o&[no^ -vViod Brouon \S a cac^r o-^ockr vxadxr U-S.S.G MfeU aad M5LZ, AoWerc OAt, Brouon ^ pccdxodc coavxc-… |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6413 | Donald Bill Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering | 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d… |
| 23-716 | Shawn Mark Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act | I. Does the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(1), require the government to prove that the defendant received remuneration for referring p… |
| 23A598 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6297 | Kevin Hewlett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea | 1) Whether the use of an internationally-manufactured cellphone in criminal conduct is, by itself, a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to satisf… |
| 23-6177 | Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact | Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did… |
| 23-6130 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit | 1. On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Sylvia Hofstetters convictions and remanded for furth… |
| 23-6122 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Newman's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6116 | Cynthia Clemons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr… |
| 23-5975 | Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent | 1. Are inferior courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in particular, allowed unrestricted and unrestrained freedom to interpret the clear and une… |
| 23-5846 | Jong Whan Kim v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 | Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense? |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-5812 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-336 | Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure | After a criminal trial under a county's civil solid waste ordinance specific to solid-waste management opera-tions, the county incarcerated the petiti… |
| 23-301 | James E. Workman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud | 1. The criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud each required proof that Workman engaged in fraudulent act… |
| 23-5572 | Joseph W. Fischer v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-09-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering | Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-238 | Roger Dale Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation | In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub… | |
| 23A222 | Jong Whan Kim v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-07 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea nature-of-charges ruan-v-united-states rule-11-colloquy | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5403 | Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5379 | Everett Charles Wills, II v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus counsel-concession criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy | When guilt is the sole issue for the jury to decide, is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the essential elements (actus reus and mens… |
| 23-5314 | Joe Crawford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states | WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 23-94 | Garret Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-08-01 | GVR | Relisted (3) | congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether the obstruction-of-justice offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether t… |
| 23-5207 | Omar Alfonso Alas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16a categorical-approach crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence immigration mens-rea physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime with a mens rea of extreme recklessness has, "as an element, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the… |
| 23-5195 | Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea | In Texas, the ens rea for attempted capital murder is a specific intent to kill. The defendant did not know this. Thus, she pled guilty although she h… |
| 23-64 | Bennie Charles Phillips, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-robbery criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act mens-rea mere-preparation substantial-step uniform-test | 1. What particularized standard should be adopted to create a uniform test for when conduct surpasses "mere preparation" and constitutes a "substantia… |
| 23-5139 | Jacinto Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another? |
| 23-5076 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force | Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-5059 | Savon Hardaway v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea harmless-error mens-rea plea-agreement rehaif-advisement rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-error | I. Mr. Hardaway pleaded guilty to a felon in possession charge. The district court arraigned Mr. Hardaway after this Court's decision in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 23-14 | Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b | In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi… |
| 22-7872 | Carmelita Barela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The circuit courts have held unanimously that Hobbs Act robbery qualifies categorically as a "violent felony" and "crime of violence." Therefore, all … |
| 22-7806 | Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-1203 | Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent | 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… | |
| 22-7692 | Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five Justices of this Court agreed that offenses with a reckless mens rea do not qualify as a "vio… |
| 22-7531 | Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions | Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element based on what it believ… |
| 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… |
| 22-7282 | David William Linder v. Brian Lammer, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-statute federal-cases jury-instructions mens-rea standing supreme-court-rule-14.1(b) | Can the drug death statute, 21 § 841(b)(1)(C) be enlarged to include analogue drugs? Can a McFadden review of a defendant's mens rea be performed by … |
| 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… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | 1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-7045 | John Leendert Oskam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent | Under the Court's recent decisions in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), does the e… |
| 22-6969 | Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-03-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment | Question I: Whether the Sixth Amendment ' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments ' right to due process require that the … |
| 22-6970 | Jeffrey Kesten v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-enforcement mens-rea plea-agreement | (1) Can a court enforce an appeal waiver from a plea agreement when the defendant was not informed of and did not plea to the proper mens rea element … |
| 22-849 | Rickie Foy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement | Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-6869 | Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability | Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-809 | Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | causation circuit-split first-amendment government-act injury mens-rea self-censorship standing | 1. To have standing to challenge an unlawful government act, must a plaintiff show that the act is the sole cause of its injury, as the Fifth Circuit … |
| 22-6829 | Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes | In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6843 | Edgar Barrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-6681 | Shane Swindall Chambers v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea modus-operandi other-acts-evidence trial-court | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS LIBERTY WITHOUT FIRST THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHERE A FALSE MODUS OPERANDI REQUIRED TO ADMIT OTHER ACTS EVIDENCE… |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl… |
| 22-6578 | Derrick Tyrone Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute federal-courts generic-offense mens-rea precedent state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Wooden v. United S… |
| 22-6541 | Garrett Statler v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because… |
| 22-6323 | Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 22-6288 | Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max | Whether in a RICO conspiracy case the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the sta… |
| 22-6130 | Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-6067 | Yazan Al-Madani v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim | Question One: Whether under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO ") an entity can be both an "enterprise " and a "victim " - … |
| 22-6013 | Damian Robert Guthary v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the… |
| 22-5970 | David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-5902 | Monica Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-357 | Mashour Howling v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-felony due-process inter-state-comity lambert-v-california mens-rea morissette-v-united-states rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status-violation | 1. Whether in state criminal felony cases premised upon inter-state comity concerns of state statutes conflicting on the legal effect given the underl… |
| 22-339 | Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Amici (5) | advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the AKS is violated only if the person offering the "remuneration * * * to induce" the purchase of federally reimbursed healthcare intends to … |
| 22-5751 | Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation | DOES THE KNOWINGLY ELEMENT APPLY TO U.S.C. $921 (a)(20)? DOES A STIPULATION AT THE TIME OF TRIAL THAT A DEFENDANT HAD AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CQMIT… |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced punishment o… |
| 22-5638 | Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5521 | Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law | Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5534 | Glenn A. Chin v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a… |
| 22-5489 | Under Seal v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-detention-act malicious-wounding mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether Virginia's crime of Malicious Wounding, Va. Code 18.2-51, is a crime of violence under the categorical approach, thereby implicating the Juven… |
| 22-5378 | Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-139 | Sari Alqsous v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-5355 | Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age | I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 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… |
| 22-5243 | Grover D. Cannon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus constitutional-law criminal-procedure defense-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea right-to-autonomy self-defense sixth-amendment | Did Louisiana's courts violate Grover D. Cannon's Sixth Amendment rights recognized in McCoy by allowing Mr. Cannon's defense counsel over Mr. Cannon'… |
| 22-5196 | Malik Holloway v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession | Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague? |
| 22-5169 | Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings | Question not identified. |
| 22-5159 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-10 | David Fox Dubin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-8278 | Glen Hunsberger v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the other, strict liability, 21 U.S.C. § 860, requires a … |
| 21-8217 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s "any sexual activity for… |
| 21-8195 | Arthur Lee Robinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-sentencing firearm-discharge illinois-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony | The Armed Career Criminal Act provides an enhanced penalty for felons in possession of a firearm with three prior qualifying convictions, including fo… |
| 21-8182 | Reuben Conway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan… |
| 21-8162 | Darnell Pearson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation | Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government… |
| 21-8009 | Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey | At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the … |
| 21-7994 | Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-7958 | Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing | Whether a mens rea applies to the drug-type-and-quantity elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increa… |
| 21-7638 | Carlos Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7630 | Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation | I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the courts of appeal as to whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degre… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7403 | James Calvin Breeden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion | Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 21-7398 | Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the public-welfare/regulatory exception to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve "dan… |
| 21-7330 | Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-7226 | Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | () Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: 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 cond… |
| 21-7129 | Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea | 1. Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed? 2. Whether, to conspire t… |
| 21-7079 | Reginald Glenn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7014 | Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea | Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction stating that for a finding of guilt, Mr. Lopez had to know that the person … |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | For more than a decade, the civil standard of care established for the practice of medicine has been utilized by federal prosecutors in criminal prose… |
| 21-1006 | Marc S. Kirschner v. Dennis J. FitzSimons, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee corporate-governance corporate-intent fiduciary-duty fraudulent-transfer imputation leveraged-buyout mens-rea section-548 | Under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(A), a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a transfer if the debtor "made such transfer . . . with actual intent to hinder, delay,… |
| 21-6816 | N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability | I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w… |
| 21-6733 | Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-12-27 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit | Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability… |
| 21-6592 | Donald Stanley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-851 | Richa Narang v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute | 1. Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment that the government has never sought to reinstate,… | |
| 21-6427 | Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the… |
| 21-6280 | Johnny Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-6225 | Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding | 1. Whether the First Circuit misapplied this Court's rulings on RICO Conspiracy by approving an instruction allowing a jury to convict if it determine… |
| 21-6211 | Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness | Whether, in a case in which the government was required to prove that the defendant was not working from a good faith misunderstanding of the law, the… |
| 21-6119 | Roger Edward Picard v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release | I. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), with respect to the presumption in favor o… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-6034 | Clifton James Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act | 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the … |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | |
| 21-5911 | Michael Herman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | IFP | complete-defense compulsory-process due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standards mens-rea right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | Can a defendant's right to present a complete defense be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard … |
| 21-5843 | Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | 1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a… |
| 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… |
| 21-5827 | Jerry Ray Craine v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5615 | Carlos Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Where counsel raised an issue in written Objections to the Addendum to the Presentence Report filed with the district court, and never withdrew or … |
| 21-5559 | Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea | Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-5503 | Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5484 | Sylvia Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase | Petitioner plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit straw purchases of firearms (as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6)) in violation of 18 U… |
| 21-5432 | Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-192 | Gregory S. Simpson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction | 1. Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that … |
| 21-176 | David J. Tatara v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus judgment-of-acquittal mens-rea superseding-information | 1. Does a conviction of a crime submitted to the jury through a superseding information filed after jeopardy attached and after the court granted judg… |
| 21-171 | Joel Zupnik v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-5261 | Shakeel Kahn v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances-act disjunctive-conjunctive good-faith-defense legitimate-medical-purpose mens-rea usual-course-professional-practice | 1. Where the government prosecutes a medical practitioner under the Controlled Substances Act for issuing a prescription outside "the usual course of … |
| 21-82 | Alpine Securities Corporation v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law agency-authority bank-secrecy-act enforcement-authority mens-rea sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission securities-exchange-act statutory-interpretation treasury-department | In enacting and amending the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Congress vested the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to administer, interpret, and en… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 21-5060 | Kevin Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes | Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 21-5016 | Salvador Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5017 | Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | GVR | IFP | aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 20-8238 | Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "con… |
| 20-8184 | Ronald Centeno v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constructive-amendment mens-rea specific-intent | I. Whether it is a violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to submit aiding and abetting to the jury when aiding and abetting is not charged in th… |
| 20-1635 | Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-05-24 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny | Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… | |
| 20-8084 | Gregory Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8071 | Delson Marc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense 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… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 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… |
| 20-7855 | James Ayers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 20-7849 | Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing | Whether mandatory sentences, as a whole or in part, are constitutional and should be replaced with factor-based analysis under §3553, in conjunction w… |
| 20-7800 | Jacqueline Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record | I. When applying plain error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, may an appellate court consider information outside … |
| 20-7790 | Rolando Villarreal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | GVR | IFP | assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony | I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-7746 | Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing | 1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960, which carries a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for "knowingly" importing a controlled substance if that substance is … |
| 20-7765 | Jared Andrew Martin v. California | California | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-7678 | Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-08 | GVR | IFP | 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause | Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7680 | Jonathan Beasley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-7604 | Christopher Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif | I. When an indictment fails to allege an essential mens rea element, may the appellate court assume the indictment still alleges a federal offense and… |
| 20-7609 | Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7341 | James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | On direct appeal, the state court found that constitutional error marred the trial, which ended with a death sentence for petitioner. The error—barrin… |
| 20-7348 | Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony | New Mexico courts have held the state's aggravated assault statute does not have a mens rea element with respect to the victim. Does a criminal offens… |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7315 | Ursula Owens v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability | Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 20-7284 | Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 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… |
| 20-7286 | Kashus Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 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… |
| 20-7253 | Nancy Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 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… |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7140 | Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prohibits individuals falling into particular status categories from possessing firearms or ammunition. Rehaif v. United States, 58… |
| 20-7145 | Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error | Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7146 | Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 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… |
| 20-7101 | Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 20-7109 | Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent | Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-7038 | David Paul Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-7019 | Kourtney Williams v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error | Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… |
| 20-6936 | Scott Tucker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea racketeering | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals has endorsed an inflexible rule that limits evidence of legal advice rendered to the defendant to the very inception o… |
| 20-6948 | Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6840 | Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of "intimidation" of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6730 | Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6710 | Marlon Iron Crow v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation | Whether the "reckless" mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for "malice aforethought" for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1. |
| 20-6690 | Randolph Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … |
| 20-6583 | Edgar Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-defect criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … |
| 20-6569 | Quincey Frye v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record | Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… |
| 20-6481 | Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea | The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea: (1) to e… |
| 20-6426 | Jose Farias-Valdovinos v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure factual-basis mens-rea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 specific-intent specific-intent-crime | Whether the district court's omission of an independent inquiry into a defendant's mens rea during the Rule 11 plea colloquy for a specific intent cri… |
| 20-6405 | Joshua Cato v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-6399 | Duwayne Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6347 | Christopher Mikelinich v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements | Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… |
| 20-6269 | Gilbert Montrez Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari court-of-appeals felony-murder legal-remand mens-rea robbery rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-review | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI VACATE THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND AND REMAND TO THAT COURT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION … |
| 20-6291 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6197 | Gregory C. Raymore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated because (1) the indictment failed to alleg e an essential element of the offense–that Petitioner kn… |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 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… |
| 20-6027 | Michael Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-5949 | Timmy Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-indictment criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession indictment jury-instructions mens-rea prohibited-status rehaif rehaif-challenge | 1) Whether Rehaif's mens rea requirement is limited to whether or not the defendant knew he was a convicted felon alone, or whether it requires him to… |
| 20-444 | United States v. Michael Andrew Gary | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t… |
| 20-5891 | Mauricio Alvarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p… |
| 20-5854 | Trumaine Muller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause | I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-5833 | Scott Francis Fortier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine | 1a. Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominan t or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purpo… |
| 20-5774 | Archie Manzanares v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach mens-rea new-mexico-aggravated-assault new-mexico-robbery tenth-circuit violent-felony | 1. The "categorical approach" determines whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). The rele… |
| 20-5733 | Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | (1) Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is categorica… |
| 20-5670 | Henry Horace Givins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where 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 woul… |
| 20-5635 | Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause | 1. Is it appropriate to convict me, Daniel Thomason Smith, when I was NEVER allowed to testify for what I had knowledge of and/or did not have knowl… |
| 20-5584 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal … |
| 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… |
| 20-5578 | Steven Gerard Walker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-5481 | Fredrick Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment mens-rea prior-acts sixth-amendment victim-witness-evidence | Were the Petitioner's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution infringed, where pursuant to F.R.E. 412, the Trial… |
| 20-5409 | Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5337 | David Enrique Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice | 1. In Marinello v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1101, 1109-10 (2018), the Court held that, to prove obstruction, the government must show that the defend… |
| 20-137 | Prescott McCurdy v. Maine | Maine | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mens-rea personal-liberty seizure state-statute takings unfair-trial | 1) Has the 'peoples' right to 'personal liberty' been suspended? Whereas the State; through statutes; is criminalizing 'personal liberty ' while aut… |
| 20-5269 | Amadeo Valls v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error | (1) WHETHER Due process prohibits Florida from excluding Hews rea .instruction from Burglary CHARGES or WHETHER IT IS STRUCTURAL ERROR For Trial court… |
| 20-5278 | Melvin Whitehead v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | crime-of-violence federal-court federal-recidivism-enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence negligence-standard recidivism-enhancement state-offense | 1) Where the definition of a crime of violence under federal recidivism enhancement provisions, such as U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(1), include the limiting l… |
| 20-5252 | Garry Grace v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of, a crime that was not an offense against the United States, in light of the… |
| 20-5185 | Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness | 1. Is a statute unconsti tutional, on its face, when it is a content-based restri ction that severel y criminalizes a substanti al amount of harml ess… |
| 20-5163 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 20-5164 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 20-5165 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 20-5170 | William Russell Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mens-rea mitigation mitigation-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense sentencing-guidelines | I. Was William Williams denied his right to due process, to present a defense, and to a properly instructed jury where the trial court refused to prov… |
| 20-5120 | Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation | Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains… |
| 20-5075 | Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony | Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea — as opposed to willfully or intentionally — can qualify as a "violent … |
| 20-5079 | Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5080 | Christopher George Wiggin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 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… |
| 20-5002 | Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health | Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 20-5008 | Emilio Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8929 | Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 … |
| 19-8710 | William Frazier v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8662 | Jason Paris Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8612 | Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault | The government convicted Edward Ronald Stamper of sexual abuse in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) based on a jury instruction which provided: In … |
| 19-1313 | Donovan Dave Dixon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzalez-v-oregon medical-malpractice medical-practice mens-rea standard-of-care | Whether juries must be instructed that the government must prove that a physician acted with the mens rea of intent as to issuing a prescription outsi… |
| 19-1303 | Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California | California | 2020-05-20 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… | |
| 19-8340 | Christopher Scruggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-8304 | Timothy J. McVay v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder mens-rea presumption-of-innocence | Whether a bench trial conviction of first degree murder by H.U.M Matrix(Homicide by Unspecified Means) can be upheld without benefit of: an eyewitness… |
| 19-8274 | Tracy Anthony Scott v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment | 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 qu… |
| 19-8237 | Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights | Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review? |
| 19-8071 | Curtis Dion Earley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8051 | Jack Benjamin Hessiani v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-defect jurisdictional-challenge mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. The Circuits are divided over whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential element… |
| 19-1102 | Dontae Small v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | abandonment-exception carjacking-statute cell-phone cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-contents digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement mens-rea riley-v-california search-incident-to-arrest | 1. In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court held that the "search incident to arrest" exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requi… |
| 19-7896 | Nicholas Hughes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p… |
| 19-1087 | Charles M. Hallinan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as… |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… | |
| 19-7873 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Mr. Alexis appeal asked Justices Gorsuch and Kagan to overturn Defendant's knowledge of his two prior felony convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Aff… |
| 19-7737 | Charles Wolfe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness | When the "advice of counsel" is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense … |
| 19-7718 | Denny Reyes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 19-7553 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7504 | Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 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. | |
| 19-7382 | Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity | I. Whether a generic aggravated assault as defined in United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2 requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness, … |
| 19-7308 | Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution | 1.) Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of "Intentionally" and "Knowingly" to the nature of th… |
| 19-7314 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses… |
| 19-7076 | Cedrick Ponder v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-795 | Paul D. Voorhees v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-12-20 | Denied | conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Does this mens rea or scienter principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where the underlying statute at is… | |
| 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… |
| 19-6902 | Samir Benamor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6885 | Antonio Escobar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop | 1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United … |
| 19-6878 | Robert L. Bolden Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-intent elements-clause inchoate-offense mens-rea substantial-step | 1. Whether an inchoate offense, whose non-inchoate form would constitute a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A), aut… |
| 19-714 | Pennsylvania v.William R. Landis, Jr. | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | blueford-v-arkansas criminal-procedure diminished-capacity double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause lesser-included-offense mens-rea murder murder-charges poland-v-arizona precedent retrial | Did the Superior Court of Pennsylvania err in finding that the reinstatement of Murder in the Third Degree upon the award of a new trial violated the … |
| 19-6840 | Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness | Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-6774 | Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His… |
| 19-6784 | Jermaine Whyte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6757 | Jamal Bowens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6722 | Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | (1) Did the Petitionee 1 know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a gun or fifeafm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). Rehaif v. See ,e .g. United States , … |
| 19-664 | Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis | 1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi… |
| 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… |
| 19-6653 | Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence | Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6633 | Adrian Ausberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony | Before this Court decided Voisine v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016), all circuits agreed that an offense that can be committed with a mens rea … |
| 19-6618 | Delvin Deon Tinker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-provision criminal-motion elements-clause federal-statutory-provision mens-rea resisting-arrest retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-decision section-2255 | Under what circumstances is a criminal defendant pursuing a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decisi… |
| 19-6569 | Keyon W. Carraway v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 19-6538 | Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN TO PROVE THE ELEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY C… |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6517 | Lynden Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 19-6496 | David Elijah Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | GVR | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | (1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-585 | Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations | Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover … |
| 19-568 | Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | GVR | 18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… | |
| 19-557 | Cedric L. McDonald v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault | Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices. |
| 19-6423 | Halisi Uhuru v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization | 1. The Appellant was improperly convicted of participating in a RICO organization, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), because he was incarcerated during the vast maj… |
| 19-6391 | Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act | 1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 19-530 | James Kerr Schlosser v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-denial judicial-misconduct mens-rea reasonableness religious-beliefs restitution right-to-a-complete-defense state-of-mind statutory-authority willfulness | 1. Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant's constitutional right to a complete defense, if the evidence… |
| 19-6320 | Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6282 | Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United Sta… |
| 19-495 | Martin Shkreli v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h… |
| 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… |
| 19-6178 | Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6192 | Lagenza Junious v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure diminished-capacity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication involuntary-plea mens-rea plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. PETITIONER, LAGENZA JUNIOUS, ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO RAISE A DIMINISHED CAPACITY DEFENSE TO FIRST DEGREE MURD… |
| 19-6114 | Antwoyn Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony | I. Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C.… |
| 19-6072 | Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington | Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1), Indecency with a Child, and 22.011(a)(2), Sexual Assault of a Child, two statutory rape offenses that criminalize … |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-373 | James Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5852 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5832 | Daniel G. Durain v. Florida | Florida | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt | In a First degree premeditated murder trial, can motive be used to establish premeditation? If so, is a defendant's conviction unconstitutional where… |
| 19-5777 | Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states | Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5763 | Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5727 | Trayvon Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5749 | Juan Manuel Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 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… |
| 19-5699 | Robert Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5654 | Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5478 | Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-5383 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5410 | Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force | 1. Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere … |
| 19-5330 | Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | GVR | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury that, in order to convict a person under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it … |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-102 | Leroy Baca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-1503 consciousness-of-wrongdoing constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-willfulness jury-anonymity mens-rea obstruction-of-justice public-trial specific-intent | 1. Twenty years ago, the First Circuit stated: "The scienter element in the obstruction statute is the subject of more confusing case law than can be … |
| 19-5198 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica… |
| 19-5098 | Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states | In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen… |
| 19-5078 | Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 19-5037 | Gilberto Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute descamps-v-united-states district-court-fact-finding felon-in-possession johnson-descamps-precedent johnson-v-united-states mens-rea | Should the District Court be allowed to find the facts necessary in order to qualify defendant as an Armed Career Criminal or should precedent such as… |
| 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. | |
| 18-9796 | Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-9772 | William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18A1344 | Saquawn Harris v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9726 | Lorenzo Hale v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 18-9699 | Jose Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9687 | Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | IFP | attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce | Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense? |
| 18-9684 | David Prien-Pinto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9661 | William Kostopoulos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S GENERAL DENIAL TO STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT HE COMMITTED A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE FEDERAL NEXUS… |
| 18A1277 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9547 | Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qu… |
| 18-9478 | David Rothenberg v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Is the use by the presecutor of a "probable cause affidavit" containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to char… |
| 18-9444 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-28 | GVR | IFP | 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S… |
| 18-9424 | Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime ? The Court … |
| 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… |
| 18-9104 | Kurt Zamor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS… |
| 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… |
| 18-8999 | 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… |
| 18-8965 | Olusola Olla v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness | 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-8911 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8941 | Sheldon Lamont Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history elements-clause florida-statute johnson-v-united-states leocal-v-ashcroft mens-rea possession-with-intent-to-sell sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Jackson's sentence under the Armed… |
| 18-8898 | Melinda J. Campbell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 18-8842 | Michael Demon Nixon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 18-8830 | Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states | I. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__,136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical… |
| 18-8600 | Tony McLeod v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 18-8617 | Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-8584 | Antwan Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness | I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove. (a). Is Title … |
| 18-8547 | Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington | Washington | 2019-03-25 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice | Mr. Biggs alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the defense of diminished capacity. The facts and evidence in the record… |
| 18-8469 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8417 | Robert Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness | I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of… |
| 18-8360 | Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8312 | Dayomashell David Aguilar v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-procedure first-degree-murder jury-instructions mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Aguilar's claim that the jury instructions relieved the State of the b… |
| 18-8244 | Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence | As a result of state court proceedings, the Commonwealth of Virginia obtained a conviction before a jury for second-degree murder against Justin Corne… |
| 18-8224 | Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability | In Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), this Court recently held that a federal criminal threats statute required a knowingly mens rea and… |
| 18-1131 | United States v. Eric Quinn Franklin | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Dismissed | accomplice-liability armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substances-act mens-rea serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug offense must categorically match the elements of a generic analogue offense, including with respect to the mens rea for any poten… | |
| 18-8082 | Elton Lee Baker, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt charging-information criminal-attempt criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea strict-liability | CAN A CITIZEN BE CONVICTED OF AN UNCHARGED CRIME OF ATTEMPT OF THE PRIMARY CHARGES IN THE CHARGING INFORMATION WITHOUT THE ATTEMPT STATUTE BEING INCLU… |
| 18-8050 | Alvaun Thompson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 | A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th… |
| 18-7816 | Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. | Colorado | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness | Whether "scienter" is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7833 | Jerome Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability | I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe… |
| 18-7720 | Howard Webber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7722 | Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation | Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-7700 | Luther Gene Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-7612 | Nathaniel Bowens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
| 18-7490 | Dan Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-24 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7500 | Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime | Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7485 | Marcus Noel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power | 1. When the United States prosecutes a foreign national for kidnapping a United States citizen in a foreign country, must the government prove that th… |
| 18-7471 | Mark Henry, aka Weida Zheng, aka Scott Russel, aka Bob Wilson, aka Joanna Zhong v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | IFP | arms-export-control-act court-interpreters-act criminal-procedure mens-rea nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a "willful" violation of the Arms Export Control Act (""AECA"), 22 U.S.C. § 2778, requires proof that the defendant was aware of the export… |
| 18-7432 | Cornell W. Barber v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… |
| 18-7345 | Mario Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2518(9) burden-of-proof due-process exclusionary-mandate mens-rea notice statutory-interpretation wire-intercepts | In the case, as in hundreds of cases over the years since the enactment of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which … |
| 18-7306 | Michael Martin Steele v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video | Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-7232 | Arthur Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault aggravated-battery armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause force force-clause johnson-definition mens-rea physical-force state-appellate-courts state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | I. Is a state robbery offense, that includes as an element the requirement of overcoming victim resistance by use of force, a violent felony under the… |
| 18-7215 | Salih Zeki Uces v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights | Whether, the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment, where it upheld the district court decision to constructively amen… |
| 18-7096 | Reinaldo Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony | 1. Is the "touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013) and Mathis v.… |
| 18-7102 | Curtis D. Huling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states | Section 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines raises the offense level for a "crime of violence" or "controlled substance offense" commi… |
| 18-7105 | Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 18-7113 | Dewey Hylor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery in violation of Fla. Stat. § 812.13, is not a "violent felony" under the elements clause Arm… |
| 18-7123 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7050 | Javier Portillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency | Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate and whether, when the entirety of facts presented at trial was considered, there was … |
| 18-7071 | Chad Preston Brewer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… |
| 18-6979 | Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6937 | Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | It is a crime for a person to induce or attempt to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The statute criminalizes … |
| 18-6950 | Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code | waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… |
| 18-6891 | Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-30 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution | Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person. |
| 18-6832 | Keddron Rakee West v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process indictment mens-rea mistake-of-fact statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Is due process violated by not allowing Petitioner to rely upon the statutory enacted mistake of fact defense as his sole defense to an indictment for… |
| 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… |
| 18-6824 | Martavious Detrel Banks Keys v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 349 U.S. 81 (1955) on double-jeopardy bell-v-united-states congressional-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-enforcement mens-rea multiple-punishments single-statute testimony | I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to answer to resolve a division in the case law and an important question of double jeopardy jurisp… |
| 18-6797 | Stephanie Irene Greene v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea scientific-evidence standard-of-review | I. Did the South Carolina Supreme Court apply the proper standard of review under Jackson v. Virginia when they affirmed the conviction of Stephanie I… |
| 18-6768 | Michael Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | 1. Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qual… |
| 18-6755 | Daederick Lacy v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors | Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years? Does the statute require proo… |
| 18-6707 | Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability | L In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally' mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) a… |
| 18-6697 | Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where… |
| 18-6662 | Eddie Lee Shular v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 18-597 | John Ching En Lee v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation | 1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total… | |
| 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… |
| 18-6547 | Christopher Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "se… |
| 18-6424 | Walter Lee Deiter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony | 1) whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery, which can be committed with a negligent or reckless mens rea, qualifies as a "violent felony''… |
| 18-522 | Michael Ishee v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio | Governmental regulation of First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and expression, draws close constitutional scrutiny since these righ… |
| 18-6339 | Michael T. Willan v. Petitioner | Wisconsin | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights clear-and-present-danger constitutional-rights domestic-abuse due-process first-amendment free-speech injunction mens-rea notice | The question is whether the Wisconsin sec. 813.12 Domestic Abuse statute requires Mens Rea, that the respondent be aware of the threatening nature of … |
| 18-435 | LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure federal-agency fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court government-fraud hazel-atlas intentional-misrepresentation judicial-procedure mens-rea rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) standing wilful-blindness | Whether a judgment obtained by fraud on a court must be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) and Fe… |
| 18-6191 | Quordalis V. Sanders v. Carlo Esqueda, Dane County Clerk of Court | Wisconsin | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process felon-in-possession free-speech mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-6135 | James K. Kahler v. Kansas | Kansas | 2018-09-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health | Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
| 18-6097 | Leonard G. Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony | I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-6073 | Tramain Deon Price v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 18-370 | Marlon Haight v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for … |
| 18-5993 | Douglas Roy Burns v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent | WHETHER A STATE COURT MUST CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZE AND ALLOW A DEFENSE IN THE FORM OF TESTIMONY AND OR OTHER RELEVANT EVIDENCE WHICH DISPROVES THE … |
| 18-5935 | Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5844 | Rocco Tinoco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation | whether a mental state of recklessness - absent Subjective intent to threaten - in conveying a threat is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U… |
| 18-5877 | Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation | Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 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… |
| 18-5795 | Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation | I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… |
| 18-5748 | Rory Allen Meeks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment | QUESTION I: Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions: - In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5532 | Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, GALINDO JOSE RUIZ-HERNANDEZ, was tried and convicted of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. The District Court adde… |
| 18-5426 | Gabriel Rivero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5444 | Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… |
| 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… |
| 18-5338 | DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t… |
| 18-5329 | Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5298 | Reuben Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5278 | Christopher Collings v. Missouri | Missouri | 2018-07-19 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state | Whether it violates th e Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time 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… |
| 18-5083 | Rahman Fulton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation | Petitioner comes forth with Question base under Graham v. United States ; U.S., No. 16-6308, friend of the Court brief filed 10/28/16. To Be Held ThAb… |
| 18-5036 | Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |