sex-offenses

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-87 Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response Waived child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat…
19-8260 Alvin Fulton v. New York New York 2020-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses 1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w…
19-746 Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado Colorado 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques…
19-5877 Damion D. Faulkner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c…