prosecutorial-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5022 | Shemica Taylor v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | IFP | executive-immunity federal-statute judicial-immunity legal-standard prosecutorial-standard rule-60 | In Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. (2024) whether a (former) officer of the Executive branch is entitled to immunity from prosecution requires distin… |
| 22-328 | Scott Allinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans, 504 U.S. 255 (1992) modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. … |
| 21-706 | Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard | 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the Government must prove… | |
| 19-1324 | Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-01 | Denied | civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")* require a plaintiff or prose-cutor claiming an "open pattern" of racketeering to… | |
| 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… |
| 18-8064 | Fernando Luviano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |