sexually-explicit-conduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5377 | Vincent Deritis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction | Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when he records images showing the minor engaged in on… |
| 24-7115 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in 'sexually explicit conduct' when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24A844 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Presumed Complete | child-sexual-abuse-material dost-factors first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) requires that the depiction be made with intent to sexually arouse o… | |
| 24-6128 | Jonathan High v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2251 for a video showing a minor engaging in innocuous conduct without editing the video to cre… |
| 24A1 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A) requires proof of sexual desire or intent when determining if an im… | |
| 23-803 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (4) | child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in 'lascivious exhibition,' and thus 'sexually explicit conduct' under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b… |
| 23A601 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography federal-criminal-law photographic-evidence sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in federal child pornography statutes turns on objective characteristics of the depicted images … | |
| 23-625 | Tel James Boam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in 'lascivious exhibition,' and thus 'sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 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… |
| 23-5566 | Scott A. Anthony v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | What defines sexually explicit conduct under 18 USC § 2251(a)? |
| 22-7855 | Edgar Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-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… |
| 22-7851 | George Poulo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-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… |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory term 'lascivious exhibition' refers to the defendant's act of exhibiting a minor's genitals on film, or to a particular type of … |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether brief glimpses of children's genital areas in videos constitute 'sexually-explicit-conduct' under 18-USC-2251-and-2252A |
| 20-1193 | Christopher G. Lee v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct | Can innocent, non-sexual conduct of a minor be retroactively converted into 'sexually explicit conduct'? |
| 20-5912 | Adam Alan Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the definition of 'sexually explicit conduct' in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) is vague, ambiguous, overbroad and a violation of due process |
| 20-5833 | Scott Francis Fortier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-vagueness mens-rea sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct specific-intent vagueness-doctrine | Does creating a visual depiction of sexual conduct of a minor need to be the dominant or specific purpose; one of the dominant or specific purposes; o… |
| 19-7865 | Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct |
| 19-6975 | Jason Lee Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism can constitute intending a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction u… |