sex-offense
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6573 | Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California | California | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-inference jury-instruction sex-offense | Are the inferences of likely guilt and of actual guilt from a finding of disposition to commit sex offenses in California's standard criminal jury ins… |
| 24A758 | Jonathan Stacy Berrier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure factual-basis interstate-travel plea-agreement sentencing-variance sex-offense | Whether a defendant's disputed factual assertions during a plea colloquy can preclude a substantial upward variance based on the government's uncontro… | |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense' |
| 21-5789 | KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation | Should courts apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction qualifies as a sex offense under the SORNA residual clause in 34 U.S.C… |
| 20-8002 | Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) | Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw… |
| 19-746 | Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses | When a court is required to advise a defendant of the privilege against self-incrimination during a presentence investigation for a sex offense? |
| 19-5877 | Damion D. Faulkner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process | is-it-substantively-unreasonable-to-impose-an-effective-sentence-of-life |