federal-kidnapping-statute

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 …
23-5995	Jake Messer v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2023-11-13	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressional …
20-5078	Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-07-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error	Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute