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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-682 | Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error | A "Yates" error occurs when a general verdict is supportable on one theory of liability but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which theory … |
| 25-6249 | Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | IFP | dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment | I. IS THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILS TO INVESTIGATE, AND SEEK TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT IN OBVIOUS … |
| 25A388 | Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice | Question not identified. | |
| 25A346 | Caylon James Washington v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-25 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion | Question not identified. | |
| 25A324 | Juston D. Beyer v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | court-martial due-process evidence-rule ineffective-assistance military-justice sexual-assault | Question not identified. | |
| 25-290 | Christopher Odeku v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-12 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-law nurse-examiner sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Are a complainant's statements to a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) testimonial for purposes of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause? |
| 25-5169 | Richard Patrick Evensen v. California | California | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state | QUESTION ONE Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to o… |
| 24-1201 | Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | bus-transportation deliberate-indifference institutional-liability school-safety sexual-assault video-surveillance | 1. Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference to its students being assaulted inside its school buses after it installed video… |
| 24-6690 | Arjune Ahmed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault | Petitioner Arjune Ahmed was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The district court declined to give him separate trials on the two kidnapping alleg… |
| 24-6178 | Michael Harvel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights color-of-law eighth-amendment kidnapping sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | Where a state actor sexually assaults and kidnaps a fellow employee "under color of law," does 18 U.S.C. § 242 proscribe as a sentencing option the de… |
| 24-6123 | Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault | Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time of the … |
| 24-5896 | Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony | 1. In a criminal case involving accusations of sexual assault in which the prosecution relies solely upon the testimony of the complainant, is it inef… |
| 24A406 | Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel | Third Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment prison-conditions punitive-damages sexual-assault | Question not identified. | |
| 24A15 | Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7672 | Andrew Culler v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process medical-examination sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay victim-statements | The admission of testimonial hearsay violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. In this case, the medical/sexual assault nurse's examination… |
| 23-7270 | Mark Johnson v. New York | New York | 2024-04-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights | Question not identified. |
| 23-7211 | Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower | Question not identified. |
| 23-7115 | Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility | Petitioner was found guilty of rape first-degree, tampering with a witness and assault fourth-degree during trial. The facts of the case, however, log… |
| 23-961 | John Doe, Through Next Friend Jane Roe v. Snap, Inc., dba Snapchat, L.L.C., dba Snap, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-rights content-provider due-process free-speech internet-service-provider negligence negligent-design section-230 sexual-assault sexual-predator tortious-misconduct | Does 47 U.S.C. Section 230 immunize internet service providers from any suit based on their own tortious misconduct simply because third-party content… |
| 23-6630 | Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony | Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23-6568 | Bouazza Ouaziz v. City of Jersey City, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy discovery-rule due-process rico-act sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the court of appeal third circuit erred in affirming the district court dismissing plaintiff sexual assault under color of law on December … |
| 23-671 | Byron Johnson v. Kaija Freborg | Minnesota | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation first-amendment online-speech private-figure public-concern sexual-assault | Where one private figure accuses another private figure of sexual assault in an online posting, is that "a matter of public concern" under the First A… |
| 23-6185 | Jabril Wilson v. Chris Stevens, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof child-enticement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault | 1 YTh^aua '*-/ noY Wvit ^o^oncKWu nT CKAA eu.\\<x-^ien4r kOkefC ffcHWeC A L/ 1 JV^x-u tO 1vs * SWV, A4%, 0 cl»UL\ i-V vvtkrtmrse ov %®m\ «tSs=>ai*.W … |
| 23-5554 | Cameron L. Hickman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime. |
| 23-5390 | Neeraj Chopra v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation | A jury instruction constructively amends the indictment if it modifies the essential elements of the offense charged in the indictment. Chopra's indic… |
| 23-110 | Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault 23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio | May an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelieved … |
| 22-7663 | Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-05-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion | I. THE TRIAL COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY ALLOWING THE ADMISSION OF EVEIDENCE OF A RECORDING BELIEVED TO BE PETITIONER AND AN UNKNOWN MALE AS PROPEN… |
| 22-7542 | Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony | Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony in evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo… |
| 22-1002 | Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix | This case presents two circuit splits: one involving a public university's obligation to balance the due process rights of a student accused of sexual… |
| 22-6282 | Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women | In the matter of United State v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000) the Violence Against Women Act civil remedy was invalidated. In March of 2022 the Viole… |
| 22-5626 | James Earl Jones v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | 1: (A) WHETHER THE TERM "ON ANOTHER" AS UTILIZED IN N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(3) APPLY or (B) WHETHER N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(6) CONTROL IN PETITIONER 'S CASE… |
| 21-8237 | Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual assault victim lay witness… |
| 21-1392 | Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court | Whether this court should grant certiorari because the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of … |
| 21-7749 | Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel for his failure to make proper objection. II. Whether, the evidence presented was i… |
| 21-1231 | Priscilla Lefebure v. Samuel D'Aquilla, Individually and in His Official Capacity as District Attorney | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Amici (4) | article-iii-standing causation civil-rights damages discriminatory-policy district-attorney due-process equal-protection sexual-assault standing | Whether a rape victim has Article III standing to sue for damages when the invidiously discriminatory policies of a district attorney's office are cau… |
| 21-7312 | Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations | 1. Whether the trial court erred be admitting, without'expert medical testimony, evidence of the complainant's stomachaches and bladder pain puporti… |
| 21-6504 | Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault | (1) Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized … |
| 20-8312 | Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington | Washington | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic … |
| 20-8240 | Carl Edmond Yancy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process fact-witnesses false-imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-evidence medical-experts pre-trial-investigation sexual-assault sexual-assault-experts virgin-examination | 1. At Petitioner's trial why did my lawyer not Conduct a pre-Trial investigation, my (Petitioner), CM EbMObtb HH/ty's Case! 2. Why d'd Petitioner's L… |
| 20-8141 | Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-05-26 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights | I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS ERRED AND ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DEPRIVING AND DENYING THE DEFENDANT OF HIS STATUTORY RIGHTS TO DNA TESTING TO A CHARG… |
| 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… |
| 20-1470 | Thomas A. Jeffrey v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process emergency-medical-treatment evidence-collection sexual-assault testimonial-evidence | Whether statements made by a suspected sexual assault victim at the emergency room to hospital personnel during the sexual assault evidence collection… |
| 20-1347 | Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-03-25 | Denied | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault | Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a… | |
| 20-1226 | Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development | Whether, consistent with the constitutional right to present a defense, a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely p… |
| 20-6820 | Eljarod Lawson v. California | California | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability | A. Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated when the court allowed the use of the prior transcripted testimony of the complaining witne… |
| 20-6524 | Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure | Whether the State proved the essential element of "without the consent" beyond a reasonable doubt. Whether the trial court's refusal to charge the le… |
| 20-761 | Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri | Missouri | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault | 1. Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficie… |
| 20-559 | Jane Doe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | 1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? 2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem… |
| 20-527 | Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. | North Carolina | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Amici (2) | disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause | Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual as… |
| 20-5821 | Calvin Simpson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault | Question not identified. |
| 20-5784 | Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-24 | Denied | IFP | complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony | I. Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process when it excludes evidence that a complaining witnes… |
| 20-5591 | Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult | 1. The petitioner asks this honorbale court, did, the Petitioner;, obtain a denial from the Nebraska Supreme Court, that omitted material fact(s) on o… |
| 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 … |
| 19-8186 | Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault | I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU… |
| 19-7596 | Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS | I Julia Louise McDuffy Johnson, Appellant believe The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict the fe… |
| 19-7270 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault | 1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Saved with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence teste… |
| 19-702 | Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-12-03 | Denied | credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility | Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne… | |
| 19-6403 | Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas | Texas | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact | Is it reasonably pertinent to diagnosisd or treat(mend)" when the stade ments made are clearly beyond the Scope of a SANE examination& Would this be h… |
| 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. |
| 19-6072 | 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 … |
| 19-243 | Richard M. Camacho v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the Army's Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP) reversed the constitutional presumption of innocence, diluted … |
| 19-5423 | Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-01 | Denied | IFP | appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault | ISSUE NUMBER ONE: Appeal Counsel only raised one point of error. It was a question regarding the Complainant. That she had been ISSUE NUMBER TWO: App… |
| 19-5112 | Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses | Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 18-9798 | Craig A. Lee v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice | Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits, in particular Drew v. United States… |
| 18-9583 | Alfredo M. Vasquez v. California | California | 2019-06-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law due-process evidence federal-constitution jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sexual-assault sexual-contacts state-constitution victim | Was it error and a denial of Due process of law under the Federal and state constitutions, to exclude from evidence the fact that the day alleged vict… |
| 18-9527 | Thomas Branagan v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-victim civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault standing testimony-inconsistency witness-credibility witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 18-9470 | R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | 1. Are hearsay statements made to a SANE nurse by a witness complaining of sexual assault, who is not available at trial because of death, testimonial… |
| 18-1463 | Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix | 1. Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the in… |
| 18-9320 | Domenick James Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE VIS-A… |
| 18-8987 | Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington | Washington | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim | Is the def dtu't ) Mich -ael 'cLRiuFst 1 eitW.ed tO rs OF the 5QCGnd de5ree. S5zwI -€ Gor'Jvt'ciôv t-J- instruc±i'Ons to dsmiss Did th S -tte sho'j D… |
| 18-8014 | Wyley Tomas Baird v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment jury-instructions opinion petition prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sexual-assault supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Was Petitioner denied a Constitutional due process of law and the right to be convicted only upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt in the absence of su… |
| 18-391 | Arizona v. Guy James Goodman | Arizona | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | adversarial-hearing bail-denial bail-restrictions clear-proof criminal-procedure due-process facial-unconstitutionality pretrial-detention salerno sexual-assault united-states-v-salerno | 1. Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in holding that United States v. Salerno , 481 U.S. 739 (1987), prohibits a State from denying bail to an arreste… |
| 18-5470 | Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence | Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … |
| 18-5109 | Reggie Rankins v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | T1tOiS rep up oI\ +kt it' €ii ce P f S+l nhin 9, flc I Wi+4', 5+&3—ui — 72O LLCS SJiii.o (4fla) |