visual-depiction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 24-170 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Do the statutory terms "visual depiction" and "lascivious exhibition" refer to the same, or different things? |
| 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… |
| 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,… |
| 23-5649 | Jonathan Monson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | Section 22 51(a) of Title 18 criminalizes the use o f a minor to engage in any sexually explicit conduc t "for the pu rpose o f producing an y visual … |
| 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… |
| 22-7851 | 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… |
| 22-7855 | 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… |
| 22-7791 | Clark Downs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |