child-exploitation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6010 | Karl Patrick Kluge v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-finding mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment | In 2018, Congress enacted the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, which established a mandatory minimum restitution amount o… |
| 25-5685 | Anthony Lemicy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation | I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE… |
| 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… |
| 24A550 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly interpreted the scope of criminal statutes related to child exploitation under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252 | |
| 24-5366 | Marquise Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | IFP | child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-determination mandatory-minimum restitution-order sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding the $3,000 mandatory minimum for … |
| 24-5156 | Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 23-5781 | Troy George Skinner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) apply extraterritorially to permit the prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen located in a foreign country whose conduct giving ri… |
| 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 | Does Section 2251(a) of Title 18 require evidence that a defendant sexually exploited a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction, and tha… |
| 23-5429 | Tywan Sykes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity |
| 21-5627 | William Brinson Ball v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi… |