| 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? |
| 21-5002 |
Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations |
Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that Mr. Robinson was not entitled to a jury instruction regarding the affirmative defense o… |
| 19-8035 |
Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California |
California |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f… |
| 19-6809 |
Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations |
Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that 'Undercover agents may properly make use o… |
| 19-585 |
Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations |
Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover … |
| 18-9461 |
Antonio Tillmon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts |
| 18-7655 |
Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification |
Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag… |