mental-state
23 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5005 | Tawsif Tajwar v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court | Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question posed during deliberation regarding a question of fact results in prejudice to … |
| 24-6542 | William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-state strickland-standard trial-counsel | Whether the Court of Appeals decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court by finding trial coun… |
| 24-6453 | Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime | Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 23-7716 | Donte Solomon v. Robert St. Andre, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alcohol-and-drugs constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process heat-of-passion jealousy judicial-review jury-instructions jury-selection legal-challenge mental-state provocation | Question not identified. |
| 23-7247 | Calvin Fair v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat | When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar… |
| 23-7123 | Ivan Isho v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision below violated the standard this Court announced in Counterman—that true threats prosecutions require a mental st… |
| 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… |
| 23-5439 | Steven Huffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five members of this Court vacated a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Cri… |
| 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… |
| 22-6969 | 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 … |
| 21-6986 | John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel | Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where (1) Atlas was charged with making crimin… |
| 20-5682 | Simon F. Ranteesi v. Eric Arnold, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fair-trial ineffective-counsel jury-instructions medical-malpractice mental-state prosecutorial-misconduct | (1) Was Petitioner denied his Human and Civil Rights Under the First, fifth, sixth, eight, and fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,… |
| 20-5202 | Jerome Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the New York offense of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a crime of violence, and whether varying conclusions from different circuits… |
| 19-589 | Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment | Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act. |
| 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… |
| 19-5979 | Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution, as suggested in Hester v. United States, 139… |
| 19-5716 | Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing | was the life of my Pregnant comfanion & being protected from imminent danger trom burg lary& Abducic with real threat by two YoUne men in their posses… |
| 18-9761 | John Givens v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability | Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder, which allows a criminal defendant to be convicted of felony murder when the d… |
| 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… |
| 18-1083 | Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. | Washington | 2019-02-21 | Denied | collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation | (1) Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with "willfulness," "unreasonableness," or other mental sta… | |
| 18-878 | Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation | Whether, in order to satisfy the mental state requirement of "knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know" that removal or alteration of copy… |
| 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… |
| 18-5278 | 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… |