contested-element

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
21-5989	Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States	Third Circuit	2021-10-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review	Whether the harmless error standard should apply to a failure to instruct the jury on a contested element of the offense
21-5202	Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2021-07-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure	Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial
20-5078	Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-07-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error	Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute