intervening-cause

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7267 William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment Due-process,jury-instructions,provocative-act-murder,intervening-cause,malice,harmless-error
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'