recklessness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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… |
| 23-7173 | John Lee Barlow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in categorically ruling that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted … |
| 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 |
| 23A866 | Nicholas Newman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Presumed Complete | assault-statute collateral-attack-waiver federal-officer mens-rea plea-agreement recklessness | Whether a federal assault statute under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness rather than intentional conduct | |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of viol… |
| 22-6829 | Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes | Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 22-5566 | Randly Irvin Begay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force | Whether federal second-degree murder is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) |
| 21-7226 | Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere reckl… |
| 21-6532 | Mary Noel Kruppe v. California | California | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law | Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces… |
| 21-235 | Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention | Whether jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of… | |
| 21-5283 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement materiality materiality-analysis probable-cause recklessness search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the Fourth Circuit err in refusing to engage in a materiality analysis of the information omitted from the affidavits to determine whether the omi… |
| 20-8257 | Oscar Daniel Rios Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-16a bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law federal-statute legal-definition recklessness statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §16(a) includes offenses that may be committed by the reckless infliction of bodily injury? |
| 20-7855 | James Ayers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the ACCA) 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of recklessnes… |
| 20-7678 | Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-08 | GVR | IFP | 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause | Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA) |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA'), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-824 | Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing … |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-5733 | Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another 'by any means,' including omissions, is categorically … |
| 20-5584 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-5075 | Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony | Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-7718 | Denny Reyes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 19-7504 | Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7324 | Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation | Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6766 | Miles Barton Nichols v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant | Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause |
| 19-6633 | Adrian Ausberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony | Does an offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a crime of violence under the identical force clauses in U.S.S.G. § 4… |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a 'violent felony' for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 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… |
| 19-373 | James Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-5777 | Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states | Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States extends beyond the definition of 'misdemeanor crime of violence' |
| 19-5763 | Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing 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… |
| 19-5410 | Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does the 'use of force' clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the 'ACCA'), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 18-9425 | Kevin Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the 'generic' form of that offense? |
| 18-7500 | Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime | Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 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? |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | Whether in a prosecution for speech under the 'true threats' doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter re… |
| 18-5844 | Rocco Tinoco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation | Whether a mental state of recklessness absent subjective intent to threaten is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 875(c) and any other… |
| 18-5298 | Reuben Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Does a prior conviction predicated on a mens rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of John… |