intent-element
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-7291 | John R. Moore, Jr. and Tanner J. Mansell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-intent federal-crime intent-element maritime-jurisdiction property-theft statutory-interpretation | Whether a person acts with 'intent to steal or purloin' for purposes of the felony offense in 18 U.S.C. § 661 whenever he knowingly takes and carries … |
| 24-6453 | Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime | Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 24-5240 | Bradley Dale Hull v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | IFP | federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice | whether-other-act-evidence-under-rule-404(b)-is-substantially-outweighed-by-unfair-prejudice-under-rule-403 |
| 23-7222 | Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must offer direct evidence of a defendant's vicious or evil intent to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 23-6673 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care | Whether the stringent harmless error language from Neder applies to Ruan-based jury instruction error? |
| 23-6271 | Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-15 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value | Whether the trial court erred in admitting Tyrone Maddox's 20-year-old prior conviction for delivery of narcotics on the issue of intent, where the pr… |
| 23-94 | Garret Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-08-01 | GVR | Relisted (3) | congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether the offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether they criminalize advocac… |
| 23-5139 | Jacinto Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Does the 'attempted use of force' clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an 'intent' to use force against another? |
| 21-5505 | Maurice Lamont Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach demand-for-certainty felon-in-possession felon-status intent-element state-law-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a defendant's trial stipulation that he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm is sufficient evidence that he knew of his status at th… |
| 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… |
| 20-7055 | Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that was the only… |
| 20-6979 | Eddie Charles Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-offense intent-element shepard-v-united-states state-law-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether the categorical approach requires federal courts to defer to a state supreme court's interpretation of state law when determining if a prior c… |
| 20-5002 | Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health | Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi… | |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 19-7633 | Anthony Allen v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt | Whether the jury instruction that 'the law presumes that a person intends the ordinary consequences of his voluntary acts' violates the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18A1315 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act burglary intent-element sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a Texas burglary conviction qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause when the statute criminalize… | |
| 18-6545 | Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California | California | 2018-11-02 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant's intent to commit robbery matters |
| 18-6009 | Emile Myrthil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force | Is 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |