sexual-offenses

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7237 Eric Grzywinski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether a statutory rape offense requires a 16-year-old age of consent to be an 'offense relating to .. sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, or abus…
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?
22-5590 Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-scrutiny prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offenses Whether the petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel where the trial court allowed the introduction of tampered evidence without the …
22-5303 George Daniel McGavitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is 'sadistic or masochistic' under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A)
21-483 David Klug v. Florida Florida 2021-10-01 Denied Response Waived charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s…
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…
19-5198 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 …
19-5007 Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in…
18-8751 William Len Rainey v. Texas Texas 2019-04-10 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses Whether the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Part 33.37 is unconstitutional as applied at trial on June 24, 2013, denying the petitioner basic Due Pro…