border-crossing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7560 David Darnell Whitehead v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the petitioner's conduct constituted bringing aliens to or entering the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry, and wh…
19-8733 Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied IFP border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation Whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is 'official restraint' that prevents an 'entry' and thus a conviction for 'entry without ins…
18-7050 Javier Portillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate