factfinder-standard

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-6566	William Dahl v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2026-01-13	Pending	IFP	child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation	18 U.S.C. § 2252A criminalizes the receipt of child pornography. A depiction counts as child pornography if its "production . . . involves the use of …
25-664	Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe	Fourth Circuit	2025-12-08	Pending		actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence	Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden…
20-89	Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden	Eighth Circuit	2020-07-29	Denied	Response Waived	2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation	Whether the statute requires the district court to consider all evidence relevant to the applicant's guilt or innocence, even evidence unrelated to th…