corpus-delicti
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6518 | Martin Vera-Rivas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol border-proximity corpus-delicti criminal-conduct illegal-entry suspicion-of-crime | Does mere proximity to the border corroborate the criminal conduct at the core of illegal entry, thereby defeating a corpus delici defense? |
| 23-6272 | In Re Bruce Lamont Fuller | 2023-12-15 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction standing statewide-importance statutory-provisions | How shall we have a conclusive answer of corpus delcti of statewide importance when their has not been an effective ascertainment of expeditious truth… | |
| 22-113 | Bradley Jacobs Shumway v. Texas | Texas | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law corpus-delicti due-process ex-post-facto judicial-exception legal-sufficiency retroactive-application | Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied Mr. Shumway due process of law |
| 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… |
| 20-6230 | Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing | Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase? |
| 20-448 | Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas | Texas | 2020-10-08 | Denied | appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel | Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process | |
| 20-5270 | Keith Allen Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | circumstantial-evidence corpus-delicti delayed-prosecution due-process motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal witness-unavailability | Whether the Charlotte County Court of Florida erred in denying a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal when the State failed to prove the corpus delicti of… |
| 19-6524 | Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge | Whether the element of 'causing the death' is an essential element of malice murder in Georgia under O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), and whether the burden was on… |
| 19-5254 | Jose Arroyo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement | Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho… |
| 18-6991 | Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation | Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges |
| 18-6573 | Malik Farrad v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media | Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication for social media postings in conflict with other circuits, violating due proce… |
| 18-5553 | Christopher Williams v. Texas | Texas | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur… |