federal-criminal-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A415 | Edgar Rene Garcia-Limon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-criminal-statute indian-country jurisdictional-elements sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether federal criminal statutes governing sexual abuse in Indian Country are unconstitutionally vague or overbroad in their application to specific … | |
| 24-1203 | Bernhard Jakits v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's jury instructions on 'sexually explicit conduct' and 'lascivious exhibition' were consistent with statutory interpretatio… |
| 24A922 | John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Presumed Complete | 18-USC-661 federal-criminal-statute intent-to-steal knowing-deprivation larceny special-maritime-jurisdiction | Whether the federal crime of larceny under 18 U.S.C. § 661 requires proof that the defendant took property with the specific intent to permanently dep… | |
| 24-843 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'uses' in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) should be interpreted contextually with other actus reus verbs, and whether 'for the purpose of' requir… |
| 24-5156 | Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 23A1059 | Jackson Jacob v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Presumed Complete | anti-kickback-statute federal-criminal-statute healthcare-conspiracy medical-services out-of-network-billing reimbursement | Whether the Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)) extends to medical services paid for by private health insurers | |
| 23A835 | Alif Jan Adil v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether knowledge of a minor's age is an essential element of criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) for persuading or enticing a minor to engag… | |
| 23-918 | Ranito Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can qualify as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 23-803 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (4) | child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in 'lascivious exhibition,' and thus 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b… |
| 22-7527 | Adam Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery can serve as the underlying felony for a 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction |
| 20-7635 | Lisa Biron v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner | When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de… |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | Whether the statutory penalties in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modify the entire phrase — 'a violation of a Federal criminal statute' — or whether … |
| 20-5904 | Tarahrick Terry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)IFP | 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a 'covered offense' under Section 404 of the First Step Act |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to limit the plain language of a federal criminal statute to the generic definition, even when the st… |
| 19-7637 | Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a 'crime of violence,' under which an offense must have 'as an element the use, attempted use, or thr… |
| 19-5198 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Does a 'substantial step' under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require evidence of intended 'Interpersonal physical contact' in order to rise to the level, and/o… |
| 18-6292 | Anthony Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a 'crime of violence' for … |