essential-element
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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. |
| 22-7540 | Harry Cole v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue | 1. Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt; 2. Wheth… |
| 22-7277 | Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction discovery due-process essential-element ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-hearing trial-integrity | 0 \aJ lAfcl'V' ^A< waT kiiowt'ftql WT o/vift13 5 of 4W cU (A 21 j£L4/>n 2) uiWt hXvX4 't'n'ai onA / -h> j' Ckimi ; _^'L IrtdicJ/Ht/tf,i/igfec4lV^ CLS… |
| 21-7923 | Charles K. Topping and J. W. Long, aka James Wayne Long v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-element fraud-scheme jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct theory-of-defense | 1. Where the district court's instructions to the jury in a crim inal case provide—as part of the theory of defense instruction—an explana tion of an … |
| 21-1082 | Tarresse Leonard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error | Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal … | |
| 21-5342 | Jamerl M. Wortham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review essential-element jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict waiver | Whether a defendant waives appellate review of his Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous verdict when the government and defense counsel jointly submit… |
| 20-8267 | Christopher Jermaine Kelley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea judicial-review parties plea-bargaining | Did the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in denying … |
| 20-6601 | Savannah Sifuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver | 1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th… |
| 20-5773 | William C. McGee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | I. Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness as held by the Eig… |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-8119 | Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing | can a trial court acquit and convict for same crime without violating the prohibitions of the fiFTH Amendment involving double jeopardy in this case? … |
| 19-7802 | Fernando Ramirez Noria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alienage confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington essential-element federal-rules-of-evidence Hearsay non-testifying-agents sixth-amendment | Did the admission of the non-testifying agents' reports of their interviews of the defendant to prove alienage, an essential element of the offense, v… |
| 19-1050 | Kyle Brooks v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | allocution criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining voluntary-plea | Due process requires that a guilty plea be voluntary, knowing, and intelligent. Here, the charging document omitted an essential element of the crime.… |
| 19-7251 | William McNeal v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-5178 | Howard Lester v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony | I. Whether the admission of a report authored by a non-testifying firearms examiner, and expert testimony from a substitute analyst concerning the fin… |
| 18-7820 | Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration | BELOME UACDNSTITUTIONAL IN VIDLATIDAL OF DUE PROCESS LHEN THE TRIAL JUDGE LHAISGES AND EXPALDS THE DEFIILITIAN DF A ESSESTIAL ELEMELLT DF THE LRIME CH… |