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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-949 | John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230's Good Samaritan immunity applies to the knowing possession and distribution of child pornography and knowingly benefiting from a … | |
| 25-6566 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | IFP | child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation | How, if at all, may courts direct factfinders to rely on the 'Dost factors' in deciding whether a depiction includes a 'lascivious exhibition of the a… |
| 25A707 | Edward C. Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | child-pornography forensic-evidence knowingly-possessed metadata probation-violation supervised-release | Whether the discovery of 75 thumbnail child pornography images in an inaccessible cache folder on an unreported cell phone constitutes knowing possess… | |
| 25-6386 | Gavin Michael Harold v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-punishment jury-trial mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding § 2259(b)(2)(B)'s $3,000 mandator… |
| 25A631 | John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Application | child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin… | |
| 25-6223 | Daniel Kroeker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute dost-factors jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition sexual-offense | Whether, in a non-production child-pornography prosecution, a trial court should define 'lascivious exhibition' by instructing the jury to consider th… |
| 25A610 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-24 | Application | child-pornography court-martial due-process guilty-plea military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Whether a military trial judge's failure to fully explore a defendant's understanding of the elements of a guilty plea constitutes a due process viola… | |
| 25A592 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation | Whether the judicially-created 'Dost factors' used to determine the 'lascivious exhibition' of minors in child pornography cases are constitutionally … | |
| 25A536 | Adrienne L. Clark v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-07 | Application | appellate-review child-pornography court-martial military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj | Whether a military appellate court's decision to partially set aside findings of guilty and reassess a sentence comports with due process and the Unif… | |
| 25-6041 | Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction based on interstate material movement for child pornography production when no direct causal link exist… |
| 25-5860 | Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction based on interstate movement of a phone containing child pornography without direct evidence l… |
| 25-383 | Mark Van Epern v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant 'uses' a minor to engage in 'sexually explicit conduct' by surreptitiously recording the minor nude during innocent activities, an… |
| 25-5704 | Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-authority federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v. Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Comme… |
| 25-5240 | Jason Shortridge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence expert-witness-disclosure government-disclosure sixth-amendment trial-continuance | Whether a district court abuses its discretion by continuing a case after the Government's late disclosure of an expert witness, and whether possessio… |
| 25-5088 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-innocence statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | QP: Whether reasonable jurists could debate the application of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) to video voyeurism and the procedural and substantive challenges to… |
| 24-7490 | Clint Robert Schram v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-evidence due-process minor-exploitation sentencing-standards uncharged-misconduct | Whether the government must prove images of child pornography depict actual minors and whether the introduction of uncharged pornographic images undul… |
| 24-7453 | In Re Curtis Baldwin | 2025-06-17 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | Does the 'Aggregate Effects' doctrine under Gonzales v Raich expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original constitutional limits of the Commer… | |
| 24-7203 | Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct | When the six Dost factors are read to a jury to determine 'lascivious exhibition of the genitals' under a child pornography statute, is a conviction c… |
| 24-7150 | Oscar Williams, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction extortion federal-statute u.s.c.-section-2251 u.s.c.-section-875 | Whether the production of child pornography by the alleged victims supports a conviction under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2251(a) and whether Oscar Willi… |
| 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… |
| 24-6826 | Timothy W. Wright v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'uses' in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires an active interaction with a minor when interpreting the statute's actus reus verbs |
| 24-6687 | Jason Jayavarman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a | Is an indictment duplicitous when it charges multiple offenses in a single count and does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit such chargi… |
| 24-6585 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment mens-rea statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent | Whether the child pornography offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove a reckless mens rea as to the minor's age under First… |
| 24A694 | Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the correct standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims in denying a certificate of appealability for a ha… | |
| 24-6287 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography federal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction | Whether a district court may impose an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. 2252A(b)(2) based on a prior state conviction 'relating to'… |
| 24-6185 | Warren Siepman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute digital-evidence federal-law peer-to-peer-networks transportation-of-illicit-material | Whether a conviction for transportation of child pornography requires proof of actual download or merely making material available through peer-to-pee… |
| 24A518 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure electronic-data forfeiture-law property-rights | Whether electronic data files stored on forfeitable devices constitute distinct 'property' under 18 U.S.C. § 2253(a) that can be separately returned w… | |
| 24-6000 | Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation | Does secretly photographing a nude minor in ordinary bathroom activities constitute 'sexually explicit conduct' under federal child pornography statut… |
| 24-5883 | Charles Victor Flint v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than federal offenses triggers a mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24A423 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state child pornography statute that is broader than the federal statute can categorically qualify as an offense 'relating to' child pornogr… | |
| 24-5852 | Alexander W. Kawleski v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce witness-credibility | Did the lower courts err in not granting a new trial based on contradictory witness testimony and potential due process violations in a child pornogra… |
| 24-5763 | David Earl Boyd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252A exceed Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials used to pro… |
| 24-380 | Matthew McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-intent federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation video-recording | Does secretly recording a nude minor in the bathroom engaged in innocent daily activities constitute 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 24-5626 | Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction based on interstate materials movement in child pornography cases and whether Congress can impose crimi… |
| 24-264 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a state offense involving child pornography can serve as a predicate for federal sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) when the … | |
| 24-5419 | Jonathan Fitzpatrick Koen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 exceeds Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials used to produce child… |
| 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 | Whether the terms 'visual depiction' and 'lascivious exhibition' in 18 U.S.C. Chapter 110 refer to the same or different things in the context of chil… |
| 24-5109 | Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) 'image specific'? |
| 24-5058 | Joseph Curtis Hubman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a)(2) 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-history sentencing-guidelines sentencing-purposes upward-variance | Whether an upward variance sentence nearly two years higher than recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines is greater than necessary to comply with the… |
| 24A1 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A) requires proof of sexual desire or intent when determining if an im… | |
| 23A1167 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-27 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether state child pornography laws can serve as predicate offenses triggering enhanced mandatory minimum penalties under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) | |
| 23A1154 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape | Whether a non-generic statutory rape offense that sets the age of consent at 18 can trigger a federal child pornography sentencing enhancement under 1… | |
| 23-7696 | Rit Tran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-7449 | Jacob VanDyke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law Auer-v-Robbins Chevron chevron-deference child-pornography commentary deference guideline-commentary judicial-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether the 1 to 75 ratio for videos found in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 is entitled to deference under Chevron, Federal-Express-Corporation-v… |
| 23-1194 | Erik Hentzen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Can Strickland v. Washington's 'prejudice prong' be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level ac… |
| 23-7061 | Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation | Proximate causation, due process, conflicting interpretation, statutory interpretation, substantive due process |
| 23-6739 | John Richard Brinson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing-reasonableness substantive-due-process substantive-reasonableness | Whether a life without parole sentence for a 24 year old with no prior criminal record for producing child pornography is substantively unreasonable? |
| 23-6662 | Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession is unconstitutionally vague |
| 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… |
| 23-6560 | Cole A. Wolak v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing | Whether the district court erred in convicting petitioner for both possession of child pornography and for receipt and distribution of child pornograp… |
| 23-6481 | Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation | Did the courts below impermissibly expand the scope of the federal child pornography statutes in contravention of this Court's precedents and the plai… |
| 23A601 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in federal child pornography statutes turns on objective characteristics of the depicted images … | |
| 23-6297 | Kevin Hewlett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea | Whether the use of a cellphone in criminal conduct is a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce |
| 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,… |
| 23-6158 | Derrick Hunt v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to suppress the search of his computer? |
| 23-5960 | Brandon Keith Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-5921 | Vahe Sarkiss v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release | Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated due to lack of reasonable suspicion for search |
| 23-5859 | Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 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 | Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 23-219 | Sherman Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state offense relates to the 'sexual exploitation of children' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) | |
| 23-5519 | Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the petitioner's convictions for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of children violate the First Amendment and the Due P… |
| 23A145 | Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography due-process inadmissible-evidence indictment-deficiency notice-requirement sentencing-enhancement | Whether an indictment that fails to allege all material elements of the charges violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendm… | |
| 23-5265 | Mark Alan Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 23-5191 | Michael McShan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 age-of-consent child-pornography consent-standard federal-law self-produced-images sexual-relationship state-law | Whether the age of consent under state law is relevant to deciding whether a person produced child pornography under federal law by requesting self-pr… |
| 23-5087 | Michael R. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test | Should the Dost factors be modified to prevent unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment freedom of expression? |
| 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 | Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 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 | Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 22-7843 | George John Maslovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-procedure criminal-history paroline-v-united-states proximate-cause restitution statutory-interpretation victim-impact | Whether a defendant's criminal history, the nature of images typically trafficked of a child pornography victim, or the amount of restitution collecte… |
| 22-7818 | Marshall M. Cohen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation | Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be determined by examining the context or creator's intent, or must be determined solely fr… |
| 22-7751 | David Paul Bickford v. Maryland | Maryland | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for 'all legislation in [the] sensitive… |
| 22-7678 | Gary E. Peel v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence child-pornography due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel takings-clause | Whether the government can criminalize the possession of non-obscene photographic materials depicting only an adult |
| 22-7684 | Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 22-7332 | In Re Michael Paul Martin | 2023-04-20 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice federal-criminal-offense gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce | Whether there is proper Fair Notice under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) | |
| 22-985 | Ferrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release | Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run consecu… |
| 22-7089 | In Re William Hopmeier | 2023-03-24 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects-doctrine child-pornography congressional-findings constitutional-authority due-process economic-impact fair-notice gonzales-v-raich interstate-commerce | Whether there is proper Fair Notice under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) for intrastate production of child pornography | |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory term 'lascivious exhibition' refers to the defendant's act of exhibiting a minor's genitals on film, or to a particular type of … |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A |
| 22-6813 | Joshua Glowacki v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights | Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order? |
| 22-6762 | Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing | Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-695 | Jane Does No. 1–6, et al. v. Reddit, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-pornography civil-action civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-immunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation third-party-liability | Whether the exception to CDA immunity contained in 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5)(A) is limited solely to Section 1595 claims where the defendant itself has co… |
| 22-6006 | Justin Richard Testani v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity | Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences |
| 22-5991 | Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 | When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent, is it sufficient to reverse the finding based solely on professional opinions … |
| 22-233 | Paul Chretien v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography fourth-amendment google-cloud probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence staleness | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a finding of probable cause for a search warrant for child pornography in a private home based solely, and without… |
| 22-5441 | Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 21-7880 | Robert Andrew Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction | Whether child pornography is a federal crime enumerated by the Constitution |
| 21-7576 | Edward Wright v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-scrutiny liberty-interests non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth plea-agreement supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness | Whether the standard federal supervision condition requiring third-party risk notification is unconstitutional for its vagueness, overbreadth, and vio… |
| 21-7345 | David Wayne Aring v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether lifetime supervised release is appropriate for a first-time, non-violent offender convicted of receiving and watching child pornography |
| 21-7334 | Gregory Todd Numann v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability |
| 21-7259 | Keith Prescott Gace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation | Should a jury or court consider the Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a minor constitutes a 'lascivious exhibition' for purp… |
| 21-7156 | Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 21-7090 | Larry O'Neal v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation customs-and-border-patrol federal-agents in-custody-interrogation law-enforcement-procedure miranda-rights miranda-warning ruse | Did the Appellate Court err in finding Larry O'Neal was not in custody for Miranda purposes? |
| 21-6934 | Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' in the federal child pornography statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2256, is limited by the term it is defining an… |
| 21-6790 | Timothy Ryan v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing | Whether the district court erred in denying Ryan's § 2255 habeas corpus petition without holding an evidentiary hearing |
| 21-6503 | Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut | Second Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 21-6006 | Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-5748 | Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video | Whether the district judge must explain the knowledge element in a child pornography plea colloquy |
| 21-5673 | Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 18 USC 2251 (a) is overbroad |
| 21-5631 | Elton Vallare v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Dismissed | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | What is the unit of prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5163 | Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen… |
| 20-8109 | Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court | Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de… |
| 20-1593 | Devon E. Sanders v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause takes into account only the essential facts for establishing the elements of two offenses |
| 20-8039 | Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the 'relating to' language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-7593 | Fernando Clarke v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute | Whether the government's own action in uploading a file containing child pornography from the defendant's folder on a peer-to-peer network to the gove… |
| 20-7460 | Carlos Rodriguez Fernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography context-test due-process first-amendment four-corners-test jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition | Whether courts must apply a 'limited context' test rather than an expansive 'context' test or a 'four corners' test in determining whether an image of… |
| 20-1193 | Christopher G. Lee v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct | Can innocent, non-sexual conduct of a minor be retroactively converted into 'sexually explicit conduct'? |
| 20-6948 | Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6813 | Manuel Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest | Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba… |
| 20-6734 | John S. Mobasseri v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2259 child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process restitution retroactive-application statutory-amendment | Whether it violates due process to retroactively apply the 2018 amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 2259 to offense conduct occurring prior to the effective dat… |
| 20-6671 | Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation | Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-6496 | Michael Alford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-services expert-witness forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-assistance motion-of-innocence pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel | Whether the court erred in refusing to order legal assistance and forensic software expert assistance to obtain and submit factual evidence |
| 20-6359 | Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified p… |
| 20-526 | Jason M. Blackburn v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-6057 | David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation | Whether equal protection of the liberty interest is offended when two classes of criminal defendants (Immigration and Child Pornography) are given dis… |
| 20-5951 | Joshua Scott Richards v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5833 | Scott Francis Fortier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine | Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominant or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purposes; o… |
| 20-390 | Brandan A. Mack v. Florida | Florida | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether a state may subject a juvenile offender to long-term sex offender registration requirements following conviction for possession of child porno… |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the 'categorical approach' may be disregarded or 'loosened' in child-pornography cases |
| 20-5739 | David Rothenberg v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses | When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from… |
| 20-5595 | Joshua Glen Box v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5560 | Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit | Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest… |
| 20-133 | Joseph Michael Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-appeal eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sexual-contact | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that counsel was not ineffective assistance |
| 20-5220 | Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness | Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a 'lewd exhibition' of child nudity in a … |
| 19-8645 | Joe Cephus Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 19-8605 | Courtland Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court federal-appeals federal-sentencing-guidelines fourth-circuit mitigating-evidence sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's reliance on the child pornography guideline and the mitigating evidence Petitioner offered to the court require the vacat… |
| 19-8559 | Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-1260 | Andrew Demma v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the child po… |
| 19-7918 | Patrick Harris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a child-pornography criminal-sentencing district-court enhancement-factors excessive-sentence sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-considerations | Did the district court err in applying sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. §2G2.2(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(6) and (b)(7)(D) to Mr. Harris' case? |
| 19-7896 | Nicholas Hughes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eleventh Circuit shall be permitted to remain an outlying jurisdiction insofar as it interprets the phrase 'for the purpose of' to require… |
| 19-7865 | Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct |
| 19-1027 | David Caswell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant | Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate… |
| 19-7622 | Samuel Elliott v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §§ 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-7589 | Michael M. Monzel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | What, if any, causal relationship or nexus between the defendant's conduct and the victim's harm or damages must the government or the victim establis… |
| 19-7260 | Darin Kaufmann v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies to determining if a state conviction triggers a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b) |
| 19-860 | Nikolai Bosyk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search… |
| 19-7075 | Matthew Rouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct | Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment applies to the private exchange of images depicting lawful, sexual conduct between indi… |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u… |
| 19-6723 | T. B. v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography due-process first-amendment free-speech sexting sexual-exploitation teen-sexting teenager-rights | Does Colorado's interpretation of what constitutes child pornography violate a teenager's First Amendment right to protected speech and conflict with … |
| 19-6676 | Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability | Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in chief implicates the Sixth … |
| 19-6538 | Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements | Whether the evidence was insufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove the element of knowledge as to the possession of child pornography c… |
| 19-6187 | Jon Kaiser v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affiant-misconduct affidavit child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review lascivious-exhibition magistrate-judge probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether an intentional or reckless omission of purported child pornography images from a search warrant application undermines a finding of probable c… |
| 19-428 | Ryan Courtade v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent | When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court revi… | |
| 19-6100 | Melvyn Perry Sprowson, Jr. v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition child-pornography constitutional-limits facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech new-york-v-ferber obscenity obscenity-standards overbreadth sexual-abuse state-regulation | Whether a state regulation of child pornography that fails to satisfy all four requirements set forth in Ferber and that criminalizes conduct that is … |
| 19-6027 | Jordan Combs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing | Whether Jordan Combs' due process rights under the Fifth Amendment were violated when the district court sentenced him to 120 months on possession of … |
| 19-5771 | Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5730 | Lawrence Michael Lynde v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sex-offender-treatment sixth-circuit-appeal standing statutory-interpretation victim-restitution | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the petitioner lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the statute at issue |
| 19-5701 | Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida | Florida | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant | Whether the petitioner's conviction for violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) is illegal due to lack of evidence, falsified transcripts, and viola… |
| 19-5384 | David Rothenberg v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | causal-process child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution disaggregation paroline-v-united-states victim-losses | When calculating restitution for a mere possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial abuse be disaggregated from the… |
| 19-5248 | Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence | Question not identified |
| 18-9411 | Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | IFP | beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the judicial construction of 'lascivious exhibition' of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |
| 18-9379 | Paul A. Light v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias non-contact-offenders reasonableness recusal second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the child pornography Sentencing Guidelines can be deemed reasonable when the Sentencing Commission has deemed … |
| 18-9305 | Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-8869 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence | Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an 'error' under the plain error test… |
| 18-1254 | Jeremiah L. King v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-facts fifth-amendment permissive-inference search-terms sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Court of Appeals relied upon permissive inferences that violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding Petitioner's con… |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc… |
| 18-8470 | Tommy Lee Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing | Has the District Court denied Mr. Jones a fair trial by allowing unsustained and unproven testimony into evidence |
| 18-1202 | Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-15 | Denied | 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability | Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was… | |
| 18-8364 | James D. Sullivan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence-rule-414 evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury plea-agreement plea-withdrawal prosecutorial-discretion rule-104 rule-414 | Whether the trial court must determine by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant engaged in child molestation conduct |
| 18-8366 | Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecified … |
| 18-8224 | Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability | Whether the child pornography offense set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted as including at least a recklessly mens rea element regar… |
| 18-8038 | James Patrick Burke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction network-investigative-technique rule-41 rule-41(b) | Should evidence be suppressed under the 'exclusionary rule' when obtained from Network Investigative Tecnique (NIT) warrants that violated Rule 41(b) … |
| 18-7896 | Ricardo Montanez-Quinones v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography distribution evidence knowingly-distributed knowledge plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | What constitutes sufficient evidence of knowledge to support two-level enhancement for 'knowingly engaging in distribution' of child-pornography under… |
| 18-7196 | Edward Allen McElroy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel | Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-7084 | Anthony Steven Young v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 | What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence a ch… |
| 18-7007 | Ronald T. Spoor v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2256 child-pornography civil-rights due-process equal-protection lascivious-exhibition racial-discrimination rule-414 school-desegregation sexual-proclivities standing uncharged-crimes | Must a video be considered in its totality to determine if it is a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v)? |
| 18-7005 | Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing | Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-6900 | Jacob Scott Watters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions | Is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause? |
| 18-6939 | Jonathan S. Nelson v. Joe Norwood, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography conviction-reversal de-novo-review due-process first-amendment obscenity scienter | Whether the right to a de novo review demands the reversal of conviction once the images disappear from the record post-conviction if the verbiage in … |
| 18-6758 | Michael Bordman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography constitutional-vagueness continued-dissemination due-process harm-disaggregation initial-abuse restitution sentencing supervised-release | Whether the restitution award in child pornography sentencings must disaggregate the harm caused by the initial abuse from the harm caused by the poss… |
| 18-6734 | Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company… |
| 18-522 | Michael Ishee v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech mens-rea scienter separation-of-powers void-ab-initio | Whether a statute proscribing the mere possession of child pornography is facially unconstitutional if it contains no element of scienter |
| 18-6215 | Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6150 | Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6049 | Robert Wallace Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-sentencing due-process first-offender internet-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the district court's statutory maximum, 240-month sentence is substantively unreasonable for a first offender convicted of one count of receiv… |
| 18-6006 | Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child-pornography crossed state-lines at an unspecified-prior-… |
| 18-5893 | Dan Wayne Streetman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker-precedent booker-v-united-states child-pornography gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-commission sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity separation-of-powers | Whether a district court can refuse to apply a sentencing guideline on policy grounds where the guideline is not based on the Sentencing Commission's … |
| 18-5304 | Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspec… |
| 18-5153 | Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previously c… |
| 18-5038 | Neil Sweeney v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the differing applications of the Circuit Courts' balancing tests under Federal Rules of Evidence 403 and 414 resulted in a violation of the p… |