sexual-exploitation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A702 | Mark Alan Deakins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the two-strikes provision of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) requires a uniform definition of 'sexual exploitation of children' across federal circuit cou… | |
| 25-383 | Mark Van Epern v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant 'uses' a minor to engage in 'sexually explicit conduct' by surreptitiously recording the minor nude during innocent activities, an… |
| 24-1203 | Bernhard Jakits v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court's jury instructions on 'sexually explicit conduct' and 'lascivious exhibition' were consistent with statutory interpretatio… |
| 24-1100 | Ashu Joshi v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment | Whether the federal prosecution for sexual exploitation of a minor is unconstitutional as applied to a legally married couple under state law |
| 24A564 | James Dean Hanapel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | entrapment law-enforcement minor-solicitation online-sting sexual-exploitation undercover-operation | Whether the First Amendment and entrapment doctrine limit law enforcement's ability to conduct online sting operations targeting potential sex offende… | |
| 24-6086 | Curtis James McGarvey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lasciviousness-standard sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment | Whether the application of the Dost factors is appropriate in determining the lasciviousness standard for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor und… |
| 24-380 | Matthew McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-intent federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation video-recording | Does secretly recording a nude minor in the bathroom engaged in innocent daily activities constitute 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 23-5781 | Troy George Skinner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) apply extraterritorially to permit the prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen located in a foreign country whose conduct giving ri… |
| 23-5649 | Jonathan Monson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | Does Section 2251(a) of Title 18 require evidence that a defendant sexually exploited a minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction, and tha… |
| 23-5619 | Jordan Winczuk v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | What is the proper definition of 'relating to the sexual exploitation of children' in 18 U.S.C. §2251(e)? |
| 23-5581 | Matthew R. Osuba v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether a person 'uses' a minor 'to engage in' sexually explicit conduct, and thereby produces child pornography, when he creates a visual image of hi… |
| 23-5519 | Octavio Cortez Fierros v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law child-pornography civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-precedent sexual-exploitation standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the petitioner's convictions for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of children violate the First Amendment and the Due P… |
| 22-7791 | Clark Downs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 22-7751 | David Paul Bickford v. Maryland | Maryland | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for 'all legislation in [the] sensitive… |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the 'for the purpose of' element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-5059 | Christopher Goodin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment | Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children… |
| 19-7896 | Nicholas Hughes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eleventh Circuit shall be permitted to remain an outlying jurisdiction insofar as it interprets the phrase 'for the purpose of' to require… |
| 19-6723 | T. B. v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography due-process first-amendment free-speech sexting sexual-exploitation teen-sexting teenager-rights | Does Colorado's interpretation of what constitutes child pornography violate a teenager's First Amendment right to protected speech and conflict with … |