sexual-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6223 | Daniel Kroeker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute dost-factors jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition sexual-offense | Whether, in a non-production child-pornography prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), a trial court should define the phrase "lascivious exhibitio… |
| 24-6852 | Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-03-26 | Denied | IFP | double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment | Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause and Sixth Amendment Rights during sentencing and plea negotiations involving… |
| 24-6533 | Jon Anthony Schweder v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statute-of-limitations | Whether a criminal defendant can challenge the jurisdiction of a trial court on constitutional grounds after failing to raise such arguments in prior … |
| 24-5446 | Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) can be based on a definitional term 'lascivious' without depicting actual sexual conduct |
| 24-5292 | Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas | Kansas | 2024-08-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense | Whether the Kansas Court of Appeals improperly upheld a conviction without requiring independent evidence of intent and improperly excluded exculpator… |
| 23-5780 | Denis Chavez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-10-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense | Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid |
| 23-5593 | Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid |
| 23-5403 | Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5385 | Adam Knoll v. Florida | Florida | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing | Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, are constitutionally valid |
| 22-6267 | Mack Doak v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | What connection must exist between the defendant's travel and the unlawful sexual act or sexual activity to support the exercise of federal jurisdicti… |
| 22-6039 | Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations | Was Kimbrell entitled to an entrapment instruction? |
| 22-5576 | Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict petitioner for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking |
| 21-8217 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language | Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s 'any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense' element requi… |
| 21-7365 | Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether the State of Florida's laws that criminalize consensual sex between adults and minors while shielding certain adults from the same or worse ac… |
| 21-171 | Joel Zupnik v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the verbs in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require the defendant to transform the minor's will or merely attempt to cause unlawful sexual activity |
| 20-1427 | Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the court of appeals erred in interpreting the term 'pending deportation' in 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(A) to include those awa… |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable only if the defendant's interaction wi… | |
| 19-5198 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Does a 'substantial step' under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require evidence of intended 'Interpersonal physical contact' in order to rise to the level, and/o… |
| 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 … |
| 18-8024 | Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea new-jersey-constitution plea-bargaining pre-trial-preparation pretrial-preparation right-to-counsel sexual-offense sixth-amendment | Was the defendant denied the right to effective assistance of trial counsel? |
| 18-6937 | Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether defining 'induce' to mean 'to cause,' without further instructing on what must be caused, leaves defendants vulnerable to being convicted for … |
| 18-5637 | Afelix Desir v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense | Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both 'Penile/Vaginal intercourse' unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |