intent-requirement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1. 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? |
| 23-5907 | Brian Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft | Does a conviction for carjacking by "force and violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite in… |
| 22-542 | Tavaris Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. |
| 22-5851 | Siaosi Vanisi v. William Reubart, Acting Warden | Nevada | 2022-10-17 | Denied | IFP | competency criminal-procedure double-jeopardy gross-negligence intent-requirement mental-competency oregon-v-kennedy self-representation | 1. Does gross negligence on the part of the State satisfy the intent requirement as set forth in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 (1982) so that double… |
| 21-8103 | Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation | Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm." Does the word "for" … |
| 21-497 | T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-04 | Granted | Relisted (2) | criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states | 1. Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 (2007), which makes it a second degree felony to threaten to "throw, project, place or discharge any destructive … |
| 20-6481 | Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea | The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea: (1) to e… |
| 19-293 | TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury | Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I… |
| 18-5884 | Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor | 1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment… |
| 18-5164 | George Adrien Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |