subjective-belief

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6634 Rafael Espino v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness Whether 'knowing' federal criminal liability based on 'willful blindness' requires a defendant to 'subjectively' believe there is a 'high probability'…
21-6821 Francis Schaeffer Cox v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-liability contingent-conspiracy criminal-intent federal-employees federal-jurisdiction feola-test martial-law stalinesque-martial-law subjective-belief sufficiency-challenge Whether a contingent conspiracy may be based on a condition outside the conspirators' control that they subjectively believed was likely to occur, eve…