criminal-responsibility

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5752 Norman Thurber v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied IFP criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation Whether there is a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251
22-7625 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-05-24 Denied IFP brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who …
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
20-7561 Melissa Pocopanni v. Florida Florida 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intent-to-commit-murder juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment second-degree-murder Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a nineteen-year-old defendant convicted as a principal to second-degree m…
20-415 Pablo Javier Aleman v. Maryland Maryland 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived criminal-responsibility detainer-transfer interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdictional-authority mental-health-adjudication not-criminally-responsible receiving-state sending-state sentencing sentencing-procedure treatment Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, does the receiving state have authority to commit a person for treatment after pleading guilty but found …
19-7674 Kyle K. Clark v. Kevin Lindsay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-responsibility cronic-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action united-states-v-cronic Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's prior decisions and create a conflict with its own precedent and a split with other circuits requiring …