sex-offenders

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5835 Sean Christopher Finnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendants first-amendment internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the First Amendment right to access the internet recognized in Packingham applies to criminal defendants who are on supervised release
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina apply to offenders on supervised release?
22-7069 Sandy Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conditions-of-release due-process federal-supervised-release liberty-deprivation sex-offenders Whether an absolute lifetime ban on communication with minors, with no exception for supervised contact or preapproval, involves a greater than necess…
22-864 Ohio v. D. R. Ohio 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (1) court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand…
22-275 Benjamin Braam, et al. v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied criminal-justice fourth-amendment gps-tracking lifetime-monitoring post-supervision sex-offender sex-offenders special-needs special-needs-doctrine totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' program categorically requiring lifetime GPS tracking of individuals who have been convicted of certa…
22-5340 Jonathan Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders supervised-release Whether the same First Amendment principles in Packingham apply to sex offenders on supervised release and prohibit untailored bans on internet use du…
19-6211 Barry L. Clark v. Mark Gwyn, et al. Tennessee 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP academic-studies civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-precedent landmark-decisions legislative-intent recidivism sex-offender sex-offenders standing state-sponsored-surveys Is it proper and timely for this Supreme Court to give redress to pronouncements incorporated within earlier landmark decisions stating that recidivis…
19-5752 Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas Texas 2019-08-29 Denied IFP 8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deterring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long sentences run afoul of the 8th Amen…
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders Whether compelled self-incrimination through the use of polygraph examinations as a requirement of parole violates parolees' Fifth and Fourteenth Amen…
18-1111 James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. Wisconsin 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth …