child-sexual-abuse

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6807 Edward Legaspi Ramirez v. California California 2026-02-13 Pending IFP accommodation-syndrome child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights expert-testimony jury-prejudice witness-credibility 1. Whether the admission of expert testimony on Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS), which by the expert's own admission cannot determin…
25-6199 Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-sufficiency criminal-indictment criminal-procedure sexual-abuse statutory-language Whether an indictment charging violations of 18 U.S.C. § § 2241(c) and 2244 is constitutionally sufficient when it alleges only that the charged acts …
24-5496 Jose Manuel Galan v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jury-instructions penal-code 1. Did the admission of evidence of child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome ("CSAAS") violated Petitioner's due process rights? 2. Did the trial co…
23-6829 Edward Joseph Parson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility In a prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse in which the alleged victim has inconsistently reported abuses, may the prosecution present expert …
23A737 Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-5413 Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon Oregon 2023-08-23 Denied IFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence that…
22-7008 Heath R. Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-sexual-abuse forensic-interview forensic-interviews habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel?
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen…
21-398 Jesus Guerrero v. Diocese of Lubbock Texas 2021-09-13 Denied Response Waived child-sexual-abuse defamation first-amendment free-speech religious-organization secular-audience tort-liability Whether the First Amendment shields a religious organization from tort liability for defamatory statements made to a secular audience regarding the se…
21-5640 Todd Dalton v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-accommodation-syndrome csaas-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay in-absentia-trial ineffective-assistance taint-and-memory-expert trial-procedure Did the California Courts' Unreasonable Refusal to Hold an Evidentiary Hearing Entitle Dalton to an Evidentiary Hearing?
20-1514 Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-04-28 Denied child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object on Double Jeopardy grounds to nine identical carbon copy indictments
19-6276 Robert Wayne Wilson, Jr. v. California California 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations jury-trial presumption-of-innocence trial-by-jury Does testimony that only four percent of child sexual abuse allegations are false violate the defendant's rights to trial by jury, to the presumption …
18-7971 Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility admissibility-threshold child-sexual-abuse daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony expert-witness gate-keeping-hearing kumho-tire peer-review psychological-testimony Should a district court be required to conduct a hearing under Daubert to consider the admissibility of expert testimony when the proffered expert adm…