| 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? |
| 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 |
Does gross negligence satisfy the intent requirement for double jeopardy? |
| 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 |
Whether the federal definition of a firearm silencer requires a showing of subjective purpose or intent to use a device as a silencer |
| 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 |
Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 violates the First Amendment |
| 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 |
Whether the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory to establish a conspiracy conviction, when there is no evidence of deliberate action … |
| 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 |
Whether a debtor's conduct qualifies as causing a 'willful and malicious' injury under Section 523(a)(6) |
| 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 |
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 |
Whether the required intent for attempted inducement under § 2422(b) is the intent to cause a minor to engage in sexual activity (as the Eleventh Circ… |