kidnapping-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5192 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Bryan Coleman, Warden | Colorado | 2025-07-24 | Denied | IFP | illegal-seizure judicial-process kidnapping-statute law-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction warrant-clause | Whether law enforcement can use judicial acts to further an illegal seizure and whether courts possess subject matter jurisdiction over such acts |
| 25-5024 | Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether state kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocate the burden of proof for extended imprisonment terms and violate due process by requiri… |
| 24-7493 | Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's interpretation of kidnapping statutes unconstitutionally reallocates the burden of proof and violates due process … |
| 24-5661 | Angelo Corey Stackhouse v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce kidnapping-statute mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) regulating kidnapping through interstate commerce is constitutional and whether mens rea under 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a) can … |
| 22-6477 | Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute | Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced… |
| 20-8361 | Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a purely local home invasion satisfy the interstate commerce nexus element of the federal kidnapping statute? |
| 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 |
| 19-6964 | David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights | Issue being raised |