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25-6397 Mark Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t…
25A586 Jonathan Harrelson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-11-18 Application affirmative-defense age-of-consent criminal-intent minor-victim prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-rape Whether a defendant can be convicted of statutory rape when he claims to have been misled about the victim's age and believed the minor was over the a…
25-453 Stephen K. Bannon v. United States District of Columbia 2025-10-15 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived committee-authority congressional-subpoena criminal-intent due-process statutory-interpretation willful-conduct Whether 'willfully' in 2 U.S.C. § 192 requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful and whether the proper composition …
25-5786 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-10-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review Whether a state violates the Due Process Clause by abolishing the writ of error coram nobis and permanently barring judicial review of a void ab initi…
25-5375 Arturs Spila v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) requires proof of knowledge that proceeds originated from a specific felony crime
24-7372 Guy Cuomo v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer 'without authorization' within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when accessing …
24-7291 John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-27 Dismissed IFP criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation Whether a person acts with 'intent to steal or purloin' for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries …
24-6799 James Garfield Charles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial QP: Whether the government failed to prove a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearm usage in furtherance of the conspiracy
24A778 Frank H. Bynes, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution healthcare-fraud medical-practice prescription-fraud Whether a physician's prescription of controlled substances outside the usual course of professional medical practice constitutes a knowing and intent…
24-6489 Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the Controlled Substances Act's authorization is defined by regulatory prescription standards or statutory text, and what mens rea applies to …
24-6149 Michael Boyer v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2119 carjacking criminal-intent intent-to-harm statutory-interpretation third-circuit Did the Third Circuit err by upholding Petitioner's conviction for carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 when the Government failed to prove tha…
24A363 Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Presumed Complete attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) for attempted Hobbs Act Robbery requires specific intent or meets constitutional standards for criminal l…
24-5767 Edgar Hernandez Lemus, aka Edgar Hernanez Lemus, and Junior Almendarez Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent felony-proceeds interstate-commerce mens-rea ransom-demand statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove a defendant's specific knowledge of the predicate felony offense when prosecuting a charge of receiving unlawfully o…
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…
24-5661 Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) regulating kidnapping through interstate commerce is constitutional and whether mens rea under 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) can …
23-7771 Stephen Lundquist v. Idaho Idaho 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-intent due-process duress evidence evidence-standard judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief reasonable-probability state-court Is the Idaho state court in violation of the Brady-v-maryland rule by changing the evidence, contrary to uncontroverted evidence, in dismissing the th…
23-1321 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud Does it improperly deprive a defendant of his defense of good faith when a jury is instructed that, if the jury finds any 'false and fraudulent repres…
23-1293 United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct To act 'willfully' within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law?
23-7560 David Darnell Whitehead v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling border-crossing criminal-intent criminal-procedure designated-port-of-entry illegal-immigration immigration-law mens-rea port-of-entry statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the petitioner's conduct constituted bringing aliens to or entering the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry, and wh…
23-7473 Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of 'subjective intent to threaten,' as articu…
23-1149 Stephen M. Calk, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied bank-bribery commercial-value corrupt-intent criminal-intent due-process felony felony-statute statutory-interpretation thing-of-value Whether something with no commercial or objective value can constitute a 'thing of value' that 'exceed[s] $1,000,' the receipt of which is punishable …
23-7284 Neal Merrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement Due-process-violation
23A909 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-10 Presumed Complete bail-conditions criminal-intent criminal-procedure intentional-violation no-contact-order statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant's mistaken belief that a no-contact order was discharged can negate the intentional element of a bail condition violation
23-6794 Isaac Cardona v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine whether-the-promotional-money-laundering-provision-violates-due-process
23-6681 Danny Lowe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking Is the jury instruction that misstates the mens rea of the offense harmless where the sole issue at trial is the defendant's criminal intent?
23-6643 Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal…
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…
23-716 Shawn Mark Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response Waived anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent federal-benefits federal-healthcare-benefits healthcare-fraud interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation travel-act Does the Anti-Kickback Statute require proof of knowledge of federal healthcare benefits?
23-6399 Michael Salinas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr…
23A598 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-29 Presumed Complete controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea Whether the jury instructions for a controlled substances distribution charge improperly defined the good faith standard and mens rea elements under 2…
23-5796 Jose Folch-Colon v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime Whether petitioner aided and abetted a VICAR crime absent evidence of payment to the enterprise and without need to prove the motive element
23-301 James E. Workman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud Whether the criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud required proof that the defendant understood his obli…
23-5645 Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) requires proof of intent to make a reasonably believable threat
23-5403 Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in…
23-5362 Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure Whether the indictment was defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers
23-5230 Steven Poppo v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-28 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial, due process, and assistance of counsel were violated
23-5195 Cynthia Kaye Wood v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mens-rea specific-intent voluntary-plea Was the defendant's guilty plea voluntary when she did not know the mens rea for the charged offense?
22-7516 Adam Dean Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the term 'knowingly or intentionally' requires the Government to prove that the defendant knew what substance he or she was distributing to ob…
22-7289 Terrick Bishoff v. United States First Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone who…
22-849 Rickie Foy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t…
22-852 Donald V. Watkins, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud criminal-intent disclosure economic-benefits financial-disclosure insider insider-lending nominee-loan regulation-o regulatory-compliance wire-fraud Whether a bank insider committed bank fraud
22-339 Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Amici (5) advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Anti-Kickback Statute is violated only if the person offering the remuneration intends to corrupt the recipient's medical decision-making
22-5363 Rodney Flucas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federalism interstate-travel jury-instruction precedent sexual-conduct state-authority Was the Jury Erroneously Instructed That the Government Only had to Prove That Sexual Activity Was a 'Motivating Purpose' for Transportation of Person…
22-5355 Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 (b) or 1591 (a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim give…
22-5075 Courtney Newman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-12 GVR IFP controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether an authorized physician or health care professional can be convicted under 21-U.S.C-§856(a)(1) if the sole allegation of unlawful activity is …
21-8287 Michael D. Phillips v. Florida Florida 2022-06-29 Denied IFP burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements for being a felon in possession?
21-8250 Deandre McIntosh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer-seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg…
21-7958 Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing Whether a mens rea applies to the elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increase the statutory minimu…
21-7720 Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a 'Scheme to Defraud' in Any Prosecut…
21-7623 Mary Ann Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity in prosecutions under Title 21, Section 841
21-7452 Anthony Atkinson v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied IFP civil-confinement criminal-intent criminal-responsibility mental-abnormality mental-hygiene-law psychiatric-evaluation volitional-impairment whether-the-state-of-new-york-should-be-required-to-produce-sufficient-medical-proof
21-7162 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence Whether it is consistent with this Court's holding in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 and the imperatives of Due Process to require the…
21-7055 Eugene Willis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process-rights firearm ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent judgment-of-acquittal jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether an attorney was ineffective for failing to argue the government failed to prove intent under 18 U.S.C. § 2119(a)
21-7014 Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction
21-1008 Andres Mencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 GVR Relisted (2) criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care Is the civil definition of standard of care sufficient to create criminal liability against physicians?
21-6821 Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-liability contingent-conspiracy criminal-intent federal-employees federal-jurisdiction feola-test martial-law stalinesque-martial-law subjective-belief sufficiency-challenge Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, eve…
21-6736 Steven R. Henson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-28 GVR Relisted (2)IFP actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w…
21-5776 Bobby John Kobito v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process federal-crime sentencing-guidelines silencer silencer-possession terrorism terrorism-enhancement trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant's possession of a silencer was intended to promote a federal crime of terrorism, pursuant …
21-408 Gertrude Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether Parker was denied effective assistance of counsel
21-366 Michael Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies controlling in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347
21-367 Paula Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Questions Presented
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied IFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense
21-5105 Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States that a carjacker's intent to seriously harm or kill the driver can be conditioned on th…
21-5086 Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the 'lawful course of professional practice' is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f…
21-5002 Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that Mr. Robinson was not entitled to a jury instruction regarding the affirmative defense o…
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions?
20-8216 Justin Michael Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction for carjacking and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence when t…
20-7953 Alena Aleykina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent due-process evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment legal-separation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was it fair to affirm 18-U.S.C-1519-charge
20-7820 Michael J. Little v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied IFP constructive-amendment criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process foreign-accounts green-card-holder indictment second-circuit stirone-v-united-states tax-reporting willful-violation Whether the indictment was constructively amended to add additional undeclared 'overseas' accounts
20-7529 Brian E. Moore v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal attorney-client-privilege criminal-intent evidence obstruction threats Are mere statements of intent to commit a crime made in the course of an attorney-client representation protected by the attorney-client privilege?
20-7243 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) requires the government to allege and the jury to find that the defendant threatened to injure a specific natural person
20-7217 Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not actual…
20-7167 Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment under 21 U.S.C. § 841 without proof that he knew the drug type and quantity
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force Whether the district court committed a procedural error in excluding evidence
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…
20-6843 Cedryck Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial identity identity-evidence other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt witness-testimony Whether Cedryck Davis's convictions for the attempt murder of Naja Harrington and Shawn Harrington should be reversed
20-6738 Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense?
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) is violated where prostitutes arranged and paid for their own transportation across state lines
20-6565 Simon Quinn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-investigation criminal-procedure homicide-investigation obstruction-of-justice reasonable-doubt specific-intent statutory-interpretation underlying-conviction Whether there was sufficient evidence to support a conviction for obstruction of a homicide investigation
20-6438 Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences of …
20-6284 D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
20-555 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether the 'for the purpose of' element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w…
20-5748 Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports criminal n…
20-283 Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment
20-5588 Joshua Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec…
20-221 Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response Waived aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines Can a jury be instructed on conscious-avoidance,criminal-defendant,knowledge,evidence,deliberate-steps
20-5081 Clarence Hoffert v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case is unconstitutionally vag…
19-8612 Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault Was Stamper's conviction in contravention of multiple decisions of this Court, including Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) and United St…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful
19-7764 Michael Tyrone Simpson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
19-7718 Denny Reyes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi…
19-1000 Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation Whether 'an offense against a foreign nation involving .. . bribery of a public official' under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery of …
19-7011 Carl Golden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intent knowledge-of-elements mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states Does the Constitution require that the accused know the elements of a crime in order to validly plead guilty?
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…
19-6902 Samir Benamor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics that make its possession illega…
19-6878 Robert L. Bolden Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-intent elements-clause inchoate-offense mens-rea substantial-step Whether an inchoate offense qualifies as a crime of violence under the elements clause
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
19-6391 Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that oc…
19-6341 Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to…
19-6262 Liddon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation Whether the Government must prove that the defendant knew the person to whom he disposed of a firearm belonged to the relevant category of persons bar…
19-6218 Timothy Milton Boone v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault burden-of-proof burglary constitutional-requirements criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime first-degree-assault first-degree-burglary maryland-code maryland-criminal-code reasonable-doubt Did the lower court err in failing to prove the first-degree assault and first-degree burglary elements beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-5853 Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the defendant is entitled to a judgment of acquittal for extortion when the defendant directed the victim to transfer property to third partie…
19-5805 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, throu…
19-5772 Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether an offense that does not require, at a minimum, a conscious disregard of a risk of harm, lacks an element of the 'use of physical force agains…
19-5753 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1029 constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law-mens-rea criminal-procedure due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states intent jury-instructions knowingly knowledge mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation To satisfy the 'knowingly' and with 'intent' in 18 U.S.C. § 1029(A)(3), do Courts have to prove precise 'mens rea' as set forth in Rehaif v. United St…
19-5489 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Whether a defendant acts for the purpose of maintaining or increasing his position in an enterprise under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering st…
19-5457 Matthew G. Munksgard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bank-fraud banking criminal-intent criminal-procedure document-forgery due-process evidence fdic-insurance financial-regulation presumption reasonable-doubt signature-fraud statutory-interpretation Whether it is proper to presume that a certificate of FDIC insurance issued 23 years earlier, combined with the statement of a bank officer that FDIC …
19-102 Leroy Baca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1503 consciousness-of-wrongdoing constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-willfulness jury-anonymity mens-rea obstruction-of-justice public-trial specific-intent Whether the term 'corruptly' in 18 U.S.C. § 1503 requires the government to prove that the defendant had a 'specific intent to obtain an unlawful adva…
19-5098 Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states Whether the government must prove that a defendant knew the specific characteristic of a firearm that subjected it to registration under the National …
18-1589 James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession
18-9574 Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen…
18-9465 Beth Galloway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial Whether a judgment of acquittal should have been granted
18-8601 Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge Whether the 7-level sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a weapon applies when the defendant never intended the weapon to discharge
18-8547 Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington Washington 2019-03-25 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice Did the Washington State Appellate Court err in finding that Mr. Biggs was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to raise the defense of dimin…
18-8281 Michael Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Did the Court in Carter v. United States add an additional layer of proof to 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) such that the government must now prove beyond a reas…
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering
18-7816 Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2019-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness Whether 'scienter' is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable …
18-7303 Joel Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility Whether Rosemond v. United States was wrongly interpreted and applied
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
18-6950 Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas Texas 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code Did the state decide an important Constitutional Double Jeopardy violation that conflicted with another Court and the Supreme Court?
18-6891 Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas Texas 2018-11-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person
18-708 Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit Did the court unlawfully affirm convictions on a negligence theory?
18-6660 Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute
18-6545 Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California California 2018-11-02 Denied IFP appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation Whether the defendant's intent to commit robbery matters
18-6299 Jonathan Wade Dunning v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appraisal appraisal-disclosure criminal-intent duty-to-disclose joint-ownership market-value property-purchase property-sale purchase-price scheme-or-artifice-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Has a defendant engaged in a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' when the defendant purchases property based on a methodologically sound appraisal without…
18-6198 Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation Is a defendant guilty of social-security-fraud under 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B)
18-6117 Josette Buendia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney Whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this Court's decision in Arthur Anderson and conflicted with the Second Circuit's decision in Rooney when it h…
18-5809 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness?
18-5686 Dwight Mundle v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony Was there enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c)
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with …
18-5028 Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering Did the court below err in ruling that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Appellant of using corrupt persuasion toward a witness with the in…