mental-state

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5005 Tawsif Tajwar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question posed during deliberation regarding a question of fact results in prejudice to …
24-6542 William Michael Dennis v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-state strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly found trial counsel ineffective when failing to present a mental state and insanity defense
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…
23-7716 Donte Solomon v. Robert St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-and-drugs constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process heat-of-passion jealousy judicial-review jury-instructions jury-selection legal-challenge mental-state provocation Question not identified
23-7247 Calvin Fair v. New Jersey New Jersey 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar…
23-7123 Ivan Isho v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions mental-state objective-standard recklessness stalking true-threats Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violated the Counterman standard for true threats prosecutions
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Does Rule 704(b) permit a government expert witness to testify about certain roles in criminal activity, that people in those roles are knowing partic…
23-5439 Steven Huffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony Whether knowing conduct not intentionally designed to harm a targeted person satisfies the force clause definition of violent felony in 924(e)(2)(B)(1…
23-14 Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi…
22-6969 Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado Colorado 2023-03-08 Denied IFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments' right to due process require that the legislative si…
21-6986 John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5682 Simon F. Ranteesi v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fair-trial ineffective-counsel jury-instructions medical-malpractice mental-state prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-5202 Jerome Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines Whether the New York crime of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a 'crime of violence
19-589 Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act
19-6025 Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5979 Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i…
18-9761 John Givens v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-liability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder irrebuttable-presumption mental-state proximate-cause third-party-liability Whether Illinois' proximate cause theory of liability for felony murder violates the Due Process Clauses and the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause
18-8999 Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation Whether the government must prove a defendant knowingly intends his communications to be a threat
18-1083 Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. Washington 2019-02-21 Denied collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with 'willfulness,' 'unreasonableness,' or other mental state, …
18-878 Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the mental state requirement of 'knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know' that removal or alteration of copyright management info…
18-7102 Curtis D. Huling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states What is the least culpable mental state that qualifies a state aggravated assault offense as generic?
18-5278 Christopher Collings v. Missouri Missouri 2018-07-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of…