statutory-elements

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6143 Gustavo Navaro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements Whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause an…
23-7797 Nicholas Brodigan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-liability force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-elements Whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting and Hobbs Act robbery's distinct elements, which do not meet the req…
22-5892 Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir…
21-8083 In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood 2022-06-07 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the death penalty for a murder that does not fall within the narrow class of murders designated …
21-7958 Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing Whether a mens rea applies to the elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increase the statutory minimu…
20-7853 Craig Allen Morgenstern v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-elements statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the trial court's errors in allowing modified jury instructions that impermissibly deleted statutory elements violated the defendant's Fifth a…
20-7217 Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not actual…
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Double Jeopardy
19-7288 John Kelsey Gammell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements Whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-6538 Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements Whether the evidence was insufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove the element of knowledge as to the possession of child pornography c…
18-7121 Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements Whether the state's failure to subpoena the victim to the grand jury and instead rely on fabricated police reports and officer testimony violated the …
18-6279 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit…
18-5678 Lee Andrew Paul v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with Burrage v. United States regarding causation