burrage-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-5516 | Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused… |
| 21-6111 | Jonas Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S CONCLUSION THAT MR. ROSS DISTRIBUTED THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF K.P. IS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS… |
| 21-5595 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND (B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 18-5001 | John Theodore Hancock v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation | Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe- ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory lang… |