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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7796 Stewart Bitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction
23-7220 Luke John Scott, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1153 congressional-amendment federal-jurisdiction felony-assault indian-country major-crimes-act minor statutory-interpretation Does the federal government have jurisdiction to prosecute a state felony assault on a minor under the Major Crimes Act (MCA), after Congress amended …
23-6896 Anthony Rimas v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2256 28-usc-994 congressional-authority law-enforcement-undercover minor minor-definition sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-interpretation undercover-law-enforcement Has the Sentencing Commission overstepped its congressional authority?
23-581 Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson Tennessee 2023-11-30 Denied child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child 'A. T.'?
23-5581 Matthew R. Osuba v. United States Second Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi…
23-5383 Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-08-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without hav…
22-7129 Thomas P. Thayer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense'
22-7117 Noel Macapagal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-intermediary commerce-clause criminal-enticement enticement federal-crime interstate-commerce minor minor-protection state-authority statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) exceeds Congress's commerce-clause-authority by reaching in-person enticement of a real or fictive minor that is arranged o…
22-7010 Jeffrey Jay York v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-enticement criminal-law enticement entrapment evidence government-agents interstate-facilities interstate-transmission jury-evidence minor minor-solicitation Whether the government presented sufficient evidence to convict York of enticement of a minor
22-5929 Juan Salvador Cordova-Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing immigration minor standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unaccompanied-minor Did the district court abuse its discretion in applying the 4-level enhancement for transporting an unaccompanied minor under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(b)(4)?
22-247 Jacqueline Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California 2022-09-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection guardian-ad-litem minor minor-rights Does the California guardian ad litem procedure deprive a minor of due process rights?
22-5558 Vince Edward LaSane v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that the jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a min…
21-1461 Nathan Vercellino v. Optum Insight, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived equitable-lien erisa medical-expenses minor minor-rights real-party-in-interest statute-of-limitations subrogation Can an ERISA fiduciary claim an equitable lien for medical expenses paid for the benefit of the parents against a judgment or settlement of their chil…
21-829 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under state statutes criminalizing consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old constitutes a predicate offense for fed…
21-6092 Earvin R. Davis v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment charging-instruments civil-action constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentence due-process judicial-procedure minor minor-imprisonment Did the trial court violate petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process?
21-5789 KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation Should courts apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction qualifies as a sex offense under the SORNA residual clause in 34 U.S.C…
19-7781 John Charles Fortner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor?
19-702 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-12-03 Denied credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne…
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
18-8469 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation Whether the crime of attempted enticing of a minor is committed when a person agrees to engage in consensual sexual activity with an adult that the pe…
18-836 Phil Miranda Luna v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived capital-sexual-battery criminal-procedure due-process entrapment internet-sting internet-sting-operation jury-instruction jury-instructions minor sexual-battery statutory-entrapment traveling-to-engage-sex-with-minor Whether due process is denied when a trial court refuses to instruct a jury on a statutory entrapment defense
18-6755 Daederick Lacy v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP age-of-consent criminal-sexual-activity interstate-commerce mens-rea minor prostitution statutory-interpretation transportation-of-minors Does the statute require proof that the defendant knew the individual transported had not attained the age of 18 years?
18-651 Jason Craig Montgomery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied 18-usc-2422b attempt coerce criminal-attempt entice induce intent interstate-communication interstate-communications minor minor-solicitation persuade sexual-activity statutory-interpretation substantial-step telecommunications-act Does a defendant attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b), where the defendant communicates so…
18-5637 Afelix Desir v. Florida Florida 2018-08-17 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both 'Penile/Vaginal intercourse' unlawful sexual activity with specifi…
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…