dost-factors
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6223 | Daniel Kroeker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute dost-factors jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition sexual-offense | Whether, in a non-production child-pornography prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), a trial court should define the phrase "lascivious exhibitio… |
| 25A592 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation | Whether the judicially-created 'Dost factors' used to determine the 'lascivious exhibition' of minors in child pornography cases are constitutionally … | |
| 24-7203 | Michael Inzitari v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-split child-pornography constitutional-review dost-factors lascivious-exhibition sexual-conduct | When the six Dost factors are read to a jury to determine 'lascivious exhibition of the genitals' under a child pornography statute, is a conviction c… |
| 24A844 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Presumed Complete | child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) requires that the depiction be made with intent to sexually arouse o… | |
| 23-5087 | Michael R. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test | Should the Dost factors be modified to prevent unconstitutional restrictions on First Amendment freedom of expression? |
| 21-7259 | Keith Prescott Gace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation | Should a jury or court consider the Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a minor constitutes a 'lascivious exhibition' for purp… |
| 21-6934 | Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' in the federal child pornography statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2256, is limited by the term it is defining an… |
| 18-9411 | Steven Douglas Rockett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | IFP | beyond the objective meaning of those words misconstrued the plain language of the statute an child-pornography constitutional-overbreadth constitutional-vagueness definitional-overbreadth definitional-vagueness dost-factors due-process judicial-construction lascivious-exhibition ninth-circuit-precedent overbreadth statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the judicial construction of 'lascivious exhibition' of the genitals or pubic area of a minor in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) to include consider… |