child-molestation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7356 Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire Whether trial counsel's failure during voir dire in a child molestation case to explore and investigate whether jurors had been crime victims (directl…
21-5837 Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th…
20-7675 John G. Stroming v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where — because of differences in the age and gender of the vi…
20-7535 Gilberto Medina-Jasso v. Georgia Georgia 2021-03-23 Denied IFP child-molestation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process lesser-included-offense sexual-battery trial-court Whether the trial court's failure to charge sexual battery as a lesser included offense of child molestation deprived Petitioner of a due process righ…
20-436 Thomas Haugabook v. Walter Bery, Warden Georgia 2020-10-06 Denied Response Waived child-molestation child-testimony criminal-defense expert-testimony forensic-interview habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Habeas Court err in not finding that trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) when counsel failed to …
20-266 Bradley Bieganski v. Arizona Arizona 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense burden-of-proof child-molestation constitutional-limits criminal-statute due-process presumption-of-innocence sexual-intent Whether Arizona's molestation statute violates the Due Process Clause
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac…
18-6234 Scott Doyle Barrett v. Arizona Arizona 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-molestation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sexual-motivation Does Arizona's statutory scheme, which excludes sexual motivation as an element of child molestation, unconstitutionally shift the burden of proof on …