sexual-battery

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6450 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment florida-law post-conviction-relief sexual-battery Whether a Florida court's denial of post-conviction relief for a sexual battery conviction violates the petitioner's constitutional rights under the E…
24-5430 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right of confrontation was violated by the trial court's ruling that the 'door was opened' to a law enforcemen…
23-6931 Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
22-7787 Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure DNA-collection-timeline
22-7154 In Re James C. Winding 2023-03-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP double-jeopardy due-process due-process-violation jurisdiction kidnapping sexual-battery Whether Petitioner's Indictment Lacked the Charge of Kidnapping and Sexual Battery for Which Petitioner was Convicted, Adams County had No Jurisdictio…
22-6541 Garrett Statler v. Florida Florida 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because it…
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review Can convictions of aggravated-sexual-battery be sustained when the state-failed-to-prove-elements
21-7419 Gilberto Mulgado v. Florida Florida 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence custodial-offense due-process fair-trial hearsay sexual-battery Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial is violated by the admission at trial of needlessly cumulative child h…
21-5380 Luke Edward Fleming v. Florida Florida 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence cold-case constitutional-law criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence murder sexual-battery Whether the Petitioner's convictions for murder and sexual battery violate the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because the eviden…
20-7649 Robert Earl Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process frequency-of-orgasms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-victim-testimony sexual-battery uncorroborated-statement witness-testimony Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of the state's witness when she testified to the frequency of orgasms occ…
20-7535 Gilberto Medina-Jasso v. Georgia Georgia 2021-03-23 Denied IFP child-molestation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process lesser-included-offense sexual-battery trial-court Whether the trial court's failure to charge sexual battery as a lesser included offense of child molestation deprived Petitioner of a due process righ…
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
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
19-6977 Samuel T. Pitts v. Florida Florida 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-victims character-evidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection propensity-evidence sexual-battery sexual-offenses Whether constitutional equal protection and due process principles require that a defendant charged with a sexual offense on an adult alleged victim b…
19-6261 Jeremiah Marion v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations Does the evidentiary provision of Florida's sexual battery statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment?
19-5435 Steven Eason v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process jurisdiction sexual-battery subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the defendant's constitutional rights against double jeopardy are violated when multiple identical sexual battery charges are brought based on…
18-1121 Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand…
18-836 Phil Miranda Luna v. Florida Florida 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived capital-sexual-battery criminal-procedure due-process entrapment internet-sting internet-sting-operation jury-instruction jury-instructions minor sexual-battery statutory-entrapment traveling-to-engage-sex-with-minor Whether due process is denied when a trial court refuses to instruct a jury on a statutory entrapment defense