statutory-elements
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6143 | Gustavo Navaro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements | The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me… |
| 23-7797 | Nicholas Brodigan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-liability force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-elements | The Circuits have confused the categorical analysis—which examines only statutory elements—with the contextually distinct rule that an aider and abett… |
| 22-5892 | Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements | When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir… |
| 21-8083 | In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood | 2022-06-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements | Question not identified. | |
| 21-7958 | Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing | Whether a mens rea applies to the drug-type-and-quantity elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increa… |
| 20-7853 | Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release | But for the errors of the trial court which allowed modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements, defendant would not have… |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-6371 | Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements | Whether there were post-acquittal fact-finding proceedings going to guilt or innocence of count 3 and count 4 that shared identical statutory elements… |
| 19-7288 | John Kelsey Gammell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements | In determining whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the ACCA, does the categ… |
| 19-6538 | Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN TO PROVE THE ELEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY C… |
| 18-7121 | Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements | was states failure to subpoena victim to grand jury for first hand knowledge,but relied on known fabricated police reports and testimony of officer im… |
| 18-6279 | Samuel Kwushue v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud | Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit… |
| 18-5678 | Lee Andrew Paul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's opinion in Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 881 (2014), which held that … |