sexually-explicit-conduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5377 | Vincent Deritis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction | Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when he records images showing the minor engaged in on… |
| 24-7115 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24A844 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Presumed Complete | child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6128 | Jonathan High v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24A1 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is … | |
| 23-803 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (4) | child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b… |
| 23A601 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether surreptitiously recorded videos and images of minors in a bathroom depict those minors engaging in "sexually explicit conduct"—namely, the "la… | |
| 23-625 | Tel James Boam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 23-5581 | Matthew R. Osuba v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 23-5566 | Scott A. Anthony v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 22-7855 | Edgar Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7851 | George Poulo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), … |
| 20-1193 | Christopher G. Lee v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct | 1. Can innocent, concededly non-sexual conduct of a minor, depicted in an image, be retroactively converted into the "use or employment" of a minor to… |
| 20-5912 | Adam Alan Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic … |
| 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… |
| 19-7865 | Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct, as the Eighth Cir… |
| 19-6975 | Jason Lee Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con… |