possession-law

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
19-8269	Stella Rae James v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2020-04-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	18-usc-1791 conviction criminal-statute due-process federal-correctional-facilities federal-correctional-facility federal-criminal-law inmate-contraband possession possession-law statutory-interpretation	Whether due process requires the government to establish actual or constructive possession of a prohibited object in order to sustain a conviction und…
18-1589	James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas	Texas	2019-06-27	Denied		contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation	Whether the act of an accused to delete or destroy contraband constitutes a "knowing or intentional possession" of the contraband.