sexual-assault
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-682 | Nikolas S. Casillas v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fair-notice military-justice sexual-assault statutory-liability yates-error | A "Yates" error occurs when a general verdict is supportable on one theory of liability but not on another, and it is impossible to tell which theory … |
| 25-6249 | Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | IFP | dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment | I. IS THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILS TO INVESTIGATE, AND SEEK TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT IN OBVIOUS … |
| 25A388 | Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice | Whether a military appellate court's affirmation of a sexual assault conviction under the Uniform Code of Military Justice comports with due process a… | |
| 25A346 | Caylon James Washington v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-25 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion | Whether the admission of a rebuttal witness's testimony over a defendant's hearsay objection constitutes a reversible error in a sexual assault prosec… | |
| 25A324 | Juston D. Beyer v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-09-19 | Presumed Complete | court-martial due-process evidence-rule ineffective-assistance military-justice sexual-assault | Whether the military judge's admission of testimony under Military Rule of Evidence 412 in a sexual assault court-martial violated the defendant's con… | |
| 25-290 | Christopher Odeku v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-12 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-law nurse-examiner sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Are a complainant's statements to a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) testimonial for purposes of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause? |
| 25-5169 | Richard Patrick Evensen v. California | California | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state | QUESTION ONE Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to o… |
| 24-1201 | Crystal Ayon, Mother of M. R. A., a Minor Child v. Austin Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | bus-transportation deliberate-indifference institutional-liability school-safety sexual-assault video-surveillance | Whether a public school district acts with deliberate indifference by installing bus cameras but not live monitoring them after a prior sexual assault… |
| 24-6690 | Arjune Ahmed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault | What does it mean to be 'accused of sexual assault' for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 413, and when can such evidence be admitted in a criminal… |
| 24-6178 | Michael Harvel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights color-of-law eighth-amendment kidnapping sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 242 allows the death penalty for state actor sexual assault and kidnapping under color of law, triggering an unlimited statute of … |
| 24-6123 | Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault | Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t… |
| 24-5896 | Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony | Whether failure to advise an accused about testifying and developing character evidence constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel in a sexual assa… |
| 24A406 | Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel | Third Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment prison-conditions punitive-damages sexual-assault | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a substantial punitive damages award for an inmate's sexual assault claim where the jury found no compensable phy… | |
| 24A15 | Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault | Whether the district court's failure to issue an injunction protecting a prisoner from alleged sexual assault violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibit… | |
| 23-7672 | Andrew Culler v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process medical-examination sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay victim-statements | The admission of testimonial hearsay violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause |
| 23-7270 | Mark Johnson v. New York | New York | 2024-04-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus legal-representation sexual-assault standing victim-rights | Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to vacate the conviction and sentence based on the alleged ineffective assistance … |
| 23-7211 | Andrew Burke v. Lieutenant Scott Soland | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure retaliation sexual-assault standing statutory-interpretation whistleblower | Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims of sexual assault and retaliation as frivolous |
| 23-7115 | Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility | Did the courts allow the petitioner to have a fair and impartial trial? |
| 23-961 | John Doe, Through Next Friend Jane Roe v. Snap, Inc., dba Snapchat, L.L.C., dba Snap, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-rights content-provider due-process free-speech internet-service-provider negligence negligent-design section-230 sexual-assault sexual-predator tortious-misconduct | Does 47 U.S.C. Section 230 immunize internet service providers from any suit based on their own tortious misconduct simply because third-party content… |
| 23-6630 | Terry L. Terry v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia molestation sexual-assault statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence victim-testimony | Did the state court unreasonably apply Jackson v. Virginia when it determined that evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain Terry's convi… |
| 23-6568 | Bouazza Ouaziz v. City of Jersey City, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy discovery-rule due-process rico-act sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | Whether the court of appeal erred in dismissing plaintiff's claims based on statute of limitations and discovery rule |
| 23-671 | Byron Johnson v. Kaija Freborg | Minnesota | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation first-amendment online-speech private-figure public-concern sexual-assault | Whether a private figure's online accusation of sexual assault by another private figure is a 'matter of public concern' under the First Amendment |
| 23-6185 | Jabril Wilson v. Chris Stevens, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof child-enticement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault | whether-the-evidence-was-sufficient-to-find-petitioner-guilty-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt |
| 23-5554 | Cameron L. Hickman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime |
| 23-5390 | Neeraj Chopra v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-interpretation | Whether a jury instruction constructively amends an indictment by modifying the essential elements of the offense charged |
| 23-110 | Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault 23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio | Whether an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelie… |
| 22-7663 | Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-05-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion | Whether the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the admission of evidence of a recording believed to be the petitioner and an unknown male a… |
| 22-7542 | Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony | Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony as evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo… |
| 22-1002 | Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix | Does constitutional due process require that students accused of sexual assault be permitted the opportunity for attorney-led cross-examination of the… |
| 22-6282 | Ileen Cain v. Mercy College, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights cybercrime department-of-education due-process free-speech higher-education sexual-assault title-ix vawa-reauthorization violence-against-women | Whether the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 2022 Sec 1401 1309 and the Department of Education clause that mandate institutions of higher e… |
| 22-5626 | James Earl Jones v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | whether-the-term-on-another-applies |
| 21-8237 | Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual-assault-victim lay-witness |
| 21-1392 | Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court | Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct |
| 21-7749 | Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel |
| 21-1231 | Priscilla Lefebure v. Samuel D'Aquilla, Individually and in His Official Capacity as District Attorney | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Amici (4) | article-iii-standing causation civil-rights damages discriminatory-policy district-attorney due-process equal-protection sexual-assault standing | Whether a rape victim has Article III standing to sue for damages |
| 21-7312 | Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations | Whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence without expert medical testimony |
| 21-6504 | Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment precedent-interpretation prison-conditions prison-safety prisoner-rights sexual-assault | Did the Circuit Court err by contradicting this Court's precedent in Farmer v. Brennan by ruling Petitioner was obliged to show an individualized risk… |
| 20-8312 | Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington | Washington | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic examination by an adult… |
| 20-8240 | Carl Edmond Yancy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process fact-witnesses false-imprisonment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-evidence medical-experts pre-trial-investigation sexual-assault sexual-assault-experts virgin-examination | Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct a pre-trial investigation and call important fact witnesses, medical experts… |
| 20-8141 | Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-05-26 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights | Whether the state courts erred and abused their discretion by depriving and denying the defendant of his statutory rights to DNA testing |
| 20-7909 | Juan Pablo Price v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense |
| 20-1470 | Thomas A. Jeffrey v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process emergency-medical-treatment evidence-collection sexual-assault testimonial-evidence | Whether statements made by a suspected sexual assault victim at the emergency room to hospital personnel during the sexual assault evidence collection… |
| 20-1347 | Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-03-25 | Denied | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault | Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a f… | |
| 20-1226 | Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development | Whether a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely privileged even when the counseling is used to develop the accuse… |
| 20-6820 | Eljarod Lawson v. California | California | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability | Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated? |
| 20-6524 | Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure | Whether the State proved the essential element of 'without the consent' beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 20-761 | Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri | Missouri | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault | Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficient … |
| 20-559 | Jane Doe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? |
| 20-527 | Kevin Guskiewicz, in His Official Capacity as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, et al. v. DTH Media Corporation, et al. | North Carolina | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Amici (2) | disciplinary-records discretion education-records educational-privacy ferpa public-records sexual-assault sexual-assault-disciplinary-records supremacy-clause | Does the Supremacy Clause permit a state public-records law to override the discretion that FERPA grants universities over the disclosure of sexual-as… |
| 20-5821 | Calvin Simpson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault | Whether the defendant's 6th Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to present evidence of the e… |
| 20-5784 | Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-24 | Denied | IFP | complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony | Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process? |
| 20-5591 | Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult | Did the Nebraska Supreme Court omit material facts and circumvent the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights? |
| 19-8612 | Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault | Was Stamper's conviction in contravention of multiple decisions of this Court, including Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) and United St… |
| 19-8186 | Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault | Whether defendant is not guilty due to lack of rape and murder cover-up, resulting in an irrational conviction from due process violations and an unfa… |
| 19-7596 | Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS | Whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict with the federal guidelines handout of the lower… |
| 19-7270 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Sayed with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence tested |
| 19-702 | Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-12-03 | Denied | credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility | Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne… | |
| 19-6403 | Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas | Texas | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact | Whether the statements made by the expert (SANE) beyond the scope of a SANE examination would be considered hearsay of the same examination from the S… |
| 19-557 | Cedric L. McDonald v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault | Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices |
| 19-6072 | Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington | Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1) and 22.011(a)(2) unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment right to Due Process? |
| 19-243 | Richard M. Camacho v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Army's Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP) reversed the constitutional presumption of innocence |
| 19-5423 | Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-01 | Denied | IFP | appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault | Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's judgment that this was an actual arraignment/indictment proceeding rather than a tri… |
| 19-5112 | Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses | Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 18-9798 | Craig A. Lee v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice | Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits |
| 18-9583 | Alfredo M. Vasquez v. California | California | 2019-06-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law due-process evidence federal-constitution jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sexual-assault sexual-contacts state-constitution victim | Was the exclusion of evidence regarding the alleged victim's prior sexual contacts with her boyfriend a denial of due process under the Federal and St… |
| 18-9527 | Thomas Branagan v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-victim civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault standing testimony-inconsistency witness-credibility witness-testimony | Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct |
| 18-9470 | R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | Whether statements made to the SANE nurse are testimonial for Sixth Amendment purposes |
| 18-1463 | Melissa Maher v. Iowa State University | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process harassment post-traumatic-stress retaliation sexual-assault student-housing title-ix | Does discrimination making a student vulnerable to harassment after a sexual assault create a cause of action for deliberate indifference by the insti… |
| 18-9320 | Domenick James Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | Whether a prior sexual assault conviction should be used to increase the statutory penalty where the prior state conviction is over-inclusive vis-a-vi… |
| 18-8987 | Michael Wainaina Kariuki v. Washington | Washington | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | assault constitutional-law conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-error second-degree-assault sexual-assault standing victim | Whether the defendant, Michael Kariuni, is entitled to reversal of the second-degree-assault conviction with instructions to dismiss |
| 18-8014 | Wyley Tomas Baird v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment jury-instructions opinion petition prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sexual-assault supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Was Petitioner denied due process of law and the right to be convicted only upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-391 | Arizona v. Guy James Goodman | Arizona | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | adversarial-hearing bail-denial bail-restrictions clear-proof criminal-procedure due-process facial-unconstitutionality pretrial-detention salerno sexual-assault united-states-v-salerno | Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in holding that United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), prohibits a State from denying bail to an arrestee wh… |
| 18-5470 | Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence | Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … |
| 18-5109 | Reggie Rankins v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A… |