murder-statute
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5060 | Harold Alvin Campbell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | amendment-challenge constitutional-violation intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-statute negligent-homicide | Whether Louisiana state murder statutes with 'no intent to kill' provisions are unconstitutionally distinct in punishment without a behavioral differe… |
| 24-7435 | Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure | Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 22-7422 | Darrell Gunn v. New York | New York | 2023-05-02 | Denied | IFP | conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the court or legislature did not expressly sweep within New York Penal Law § 125.27 all killings in which the murderer unlawfully entered the … |
| 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… |
| 21-5853 | Noah Gaston v. Maine | Maine | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent | Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Noah Gaston… |