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 … |