sexual-battery
18 cases — ← All topics
| 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 |