criminal-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6472 | Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2026-01-02 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-offense direct-review due-process felony-murder retroactive-application substantive-change | Whether a substantive change to a criminal offense must apply retroactively to a defendant on direct review when the change abolishes the offense for … |
| 25-5091 | Andres Burgara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1… |
| 24-7032 | Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation | Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-6865 | Brian Alfaro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contract-violation criminal-offense due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-information | Does the timing of earned profits constitute a criminal offense without financial harm, and did the district court's denial of juror information reque… |
| 24-5996 | Todd Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.… |
| 23-5506 | Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation | Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce is sufficient to bring a purely local, non-economic crimi… |
| 23-5075 | Derek J. Petty v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error | Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error |
| 22-7026 | Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense | Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements violated the Confrontation Clause |
| 21-8143 | Marcus Branch v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-06-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers | Was the double-jeopardy clause violated? |
| 20-6407 | Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct | Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 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… |
| 20-5584 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-5554 | Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter juris… |
| 19-8929 | Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7504 | Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7076 | Cedrick Ponder v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6797 | Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure | Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not … |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a 'violent felony' for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6131 | Derrick Estell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional | Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a 'crime of violenc… |
| 19-373 | James Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5525 | Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law | Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th… |
| 19-5463 | Jesse Dean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence aedpa-restrictions anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-v-maryland criminal-jurisdiction criminal-offense due-process federal-procedure fraud habeas-corpus jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley | Whether the District Court had jurisdiction |
| 19-5243 | Larry Marvel v. Delaware | Delaware | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense |
| 19-5078 | Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 18-9248 | Preston Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-offense indirect-force omission physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether an offense committed by indirect force, or by 'any means' like an omission, qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Careener Criminal … |
| 18-8699 | Marckenson Chery v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422b criminal-offense criminal-offense-element double-jeopardy fifth-amendment indictment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) must identify the ''criminal offense'' element in order to meet the required nature of the … |
| 18-7961 | David Martinko v. New Hampshire | New Hampshire | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation | Should the 'Absurdity Doctrine' be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether to protect legislative supremacy? |
| 18-6979 | Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of 'culpable negligence' qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 18-6547 | Christopher Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act |