21-usc-841
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-5117 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing | A. Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the general verdict required that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U… |
| 23-7283 | Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing | Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-6394 | Andrew Tablack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation | Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. §811(2)(G) that requires the "drug named" in the indictment to be listed as the controlled substance analogues? … |
| 23-6087 | Ronell Whitehead v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | IFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 22-7292 | Jason Edward Simpson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure due-process jury-finding jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea reasonable-doubt statutory-minimum-maximum statutory-sentencing | 1. Whether a conviction of a substantive offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841 of the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") requires that a jury find beyond a rea… |
| 22-5902 | Monica Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5816 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-5346 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness | 1. Whether the District Court erred by instructing the deliberate-indifference instruction based upon the facts in this case when it denied defendant'… |
| 21-8162 | Darnell Pearson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation | Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government… |
| 21-8020 | Ronald Mitchell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury | 1. Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because she failed to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse (rather than toxicology) to in… |
| 21-7759 | Mikkel McKinnie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance | I. Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a D… |
| 21-7393 | Travis Ryan Skaggs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 concurrent-sentences first-step-act sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment | Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by holding that Mr. Skaggs' conviction in Wise County, Virginia on July 27, 2… |
| 21-7342 | Alejandro Salinas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act least-harsh-sentence multiple-drug-types sentencing-parameters statutory-penalties statutory-sentencing | Does the record demonstrate that a defendant was sentenced in accordance with the FSA1 for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, involving multiple drug type… |
| 20-8293 | Louis John Fontanez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 21-usc-841 but-for-causation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness expert-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-enhancement | Was counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to consult or hire expert witnesses to investigate tte but-for causation of the victim's in… |
| 20-1480 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | GVR | Relisted (6) | 21-cfr-1306-04 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice opioid-prescription professional-standards statutory-interpretation united-states-v-moore | Can the elements of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(l) as defined in United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975) requiring the Government to prove unlawful distribu… |
| 20-7121 | Georges Michel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether the Court of Appeals erred, reversibly, in affirming the district court's decision—making a drug quantity determination, after the Remand—wher… |
| 20-6108 | Antoine Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 20-5628 | Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 19-8445 | Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-8333 | Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts… |
| 19-7952 | Michael Deon Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7057 | Johnny L. Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 19-6378 | Raymond Gentile v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution | Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 … |
| 19-5928 | Marcos Santiago v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 18-9772 | William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18-9574 | Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-8587 | In Re Christopher Stegawski | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony | Was the trial fair when: - prosecution took 5 days of testimonies and defense none - key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial - court deni… | |
| 18-1064 | In Re Octavious DeMont Williams | 2019-02-13 | Denied | 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial | Whether petitioner's constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the fundamental right that a jury find him guilty of all elements… | ||
| 18-7388 | David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-6413 | Joshua Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-5957 | Raul Arcila v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice | Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor, "resulting in death," under 21 USC §841(b)… |
| 18-5654 | Willie Lee Daniels v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |