sexual-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A339 Devin W. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct Whether a military court's general verdict of guilt in a sexual misconduct case can be challenged based on recent legal changes affecting the soundnes…
25-131 David C. L. Walton v. Ashley Nehls Seventh Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied consent constitutional-rights eighth-amendment incarceration prison-official sexual-misconduct Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a rule treating an incarcerated person as capable of giving legally effective consent to sexual conduct with a pr…
24-1207 Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai…
24-6763 Jonetta L. Grieme v. Shawn Collie, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP color-of-law due-process fraudulent-concealment sexual-misconduct statute-of-limitations witness-tampering Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding the petitioner's claims time-barred despite allegations of fraudulent concealment, duress…
22-839 Daniel Greer v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions propensity propensity-evidence sex-crimes sexual-misconduct Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury is instructed that evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct is admissible to prove propensity, even thou…
22-5199 Israel Manuel Rios v. Texas Texas 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offense extraneous-offenses fair-trial prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 sexual-misconduct Whether the purpose of Rule 403 is to exclude relevant but substantially prejudicial evidence that outweighs the probative value of extraneous sexual …
21-7063 Salahudin Shaheed v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts have properly used their 'physical force' when declaring certain conduct, such as 'drug introduction' and 'illicit sex acts' …
21-5770 Arthur Perrault v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district cou…
20-182 Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent