federal-kidnapping

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-6061	George Oscar Messer v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2023-11-20	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	due-process federal-kidnapping federal-kidnapping-statute fifth-amendment interstate-commerce intrastate-crime statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness	Whether the residual clause of 'or otherwise' of the federal kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201, is void for vagueness under the due process clause …
22-5028	Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2022-07-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines	Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines…
20-8288	Anthony L. Ingram v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2021-06-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal	Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of the…