statutory-rape
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A586 | Jonathan Harrelson v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-11-18 | Application | affirmative-defense age-of-consent criminal-intent minor-victim prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-rape | Whether a defendant can be convicted of statutory rape when he claims to have been misled about the victim's age and believed the minor was over the a… | |
| 23A1154 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape | Whether a non-generic statutory rape offense that sets the age of consent at 18 can trigger a federal child pornography sentencing enhancement under 1… | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-6202 | Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Prisoner Review Board | Illinois | 2022-12-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule grand-jury grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-error privacy-protection statutory-rape video-privacy-protection-act void-judgment vppa-violation | Gakuba's criminal indictment was void due to violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act |
| 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… |
| 19-6072 | Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington | Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1) and 22.011(a)(2) unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment right to Due Process? |
| 18-6832 | Keddron Rakee West v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process indictment mens-rea mistake-of-fact statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Is due process violated by not allowing Petitioner to rely upon the statutory enacted mistake of fact defense as his sole defense to an indictment for… |