necessity-defense
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5710 | Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense | Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of the necessity defense if he cou… |
| 25-5230 | Victor Samuel Brito v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction necessity-defense sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to have a jury consider and give effect to a necessity defense when th… |
| 24-6613 | Robert Atchinson v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2025-02-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-disobedience climate-change constitutional-rights expert-testimony necessity-defense pre-trial-motion | Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals erred by affirming the pre-trial denial of Mr. Atchinson's necessity defense, which was supported by expert testimon… |
| 23-6173 | Akosua Aaebo Akhan v. Kwesi Akhan | District of Columbia | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | anti-stalking-order civil-rights dna-testing forced-agreement human-trafficking legal-standing necessity-defense power-of-attorney restitution standing | 1. Was/is Petitioner legally bound by the AQ;ti,-Stalking Order entered in Superior Court of the District of Columbia Case No. 2021 ASO 000504 if Peti… |
| 21-8142 | Major Mike Webb, aka Michael D. Webb v. Ralph Northam, et al. | Virginia | 2022-06-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights color-of-law due-process first-amendment necessity-defense prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation unrepresented-litigant writ-of-mandamus | "Globally, as of 6:09pm CEST, 10 June 2022, there have been 532,201,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,305,358 deaths, reported to WHO ", St… |
| 18-5456 | Gary Allen Kachina v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena | Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou… |