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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… | |
| 25-6742 | Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea | 1. Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance under 21 USCS 846 and 841(a) fails to state an offense where it plac… |
| 25-6622 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6326 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure | By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition … |
| 25-6218 | Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 25-6217 | Christopher Wuchter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25A535 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement | This document does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The text contains questions posed within the Background section of an ex… | |
| 25-5967 | Lynell Guyton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-act constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement due-process | 1. Did Congress violate the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution when it authorized the Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule control… |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5816 | William Loydellton Speed, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller-exception career-offender-guideline controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-law state-law | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance" in the definition of "controlled substance offense" in the Career Offender Guideline, § 4B1.2(b), refers to… |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-372 | Erik Matthew Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Pending | Amici (2) | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-statute firearm-possession marijuana-use second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any… |
| 25A253 | Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5465 | David Nicholson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession controlled-substance criminal-procedure dominion-and-control intent-to-distribute post-offense-admission | Whether a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 841 for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance can be sustained based solely on (1) constr… |
| 25-5454 | Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO… |
| 25-5297 | Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance" in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5226 | Nashaun Drake v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5091 | Andres Burgara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1… |
| 24-1328 | United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1249 | United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1248 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1247 | United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7070 | In Re Shawn Michael Chalifoux | 2025-04-24 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy controlled-substance false-testimony grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution | 1) Does an Assistant U.S. Attorney have the authority to present perjurious testimony and/or false declarations before a grand jury and/or district co… | |
| 24-6936 | Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac… |
| 24-6898 | Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6410 | Antoine Wiggins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 24-6222 | Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights controlled-substance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation state-police-powers | 1. The petitioner asks this Court to provide more clarity to current federal case law that has been established regarding the exceptions of exigent ci… |
| 24-6204 | Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard | Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo… |
| 24-5996 | Todd Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-5231 | Dean Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 24-5031 | Keith White v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 | Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 23-7676 | Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "… |
| 23-7542 | Anthony Obute v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement, which explicitly reserves the right to challenge the constitutionality of a statute… |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7190 | Trivansky Swington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-7075 | Breon D. Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY INSTRUCTED THE JURY CONCERNING THE SECTION 924(c) CHARGES? II. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED A KNOWING… |
| 23A757 | Breon Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6692 | Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement | I. Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may b… |
| 23-6673 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 454 (2022), this Court held that to convict an authorized person of distributing a controlled substance under … |
| 23A661 | Andrew Tablack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6499 | Pete Manning v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction | In federal sentencing, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines typically call for a higher advisory Guidelines range if the defendant has been convicted of a p… |
| 23-6454 | Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition | 1. Did the district court err when it counted Hutchins's Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance offense to make him a career offender under… |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 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? … |
| 23-6314 | Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-6135 | Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6118 | T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review | In the absence of an explicit definition, is the definition of "controlled substance" in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or st… |
| 23-6074 | Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession | Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we… |
| 23-5782 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the meaning of the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-376 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substanc… |
| 23-5604 | Ernesto Ordunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-5587 | Daniel Carrington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. BURRAGE, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), CREATED A BRIGHT LINE RULE ESTABLISHING A RIGHT OF THE DEFENDANT TO PR… |
| 23-198 | Jamar M. Lewis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law | 1. Under this Court's decision in McNeill, is the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines defined at the time of the predicate convic… |
| 23-5358 | Devin Jerrod Long v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5236 | Marvas Aurelien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses | I. Whether the "controlled substance" definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at… |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a "controlled substance offense" to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 22-7898 | Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7903 | Denvy Hoffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7864 | Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold | Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi… |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7736 | Brandon Ross Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing | Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7716 | Minnela Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7675 | Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7552 | Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Whether the S… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7385 | Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors | Whether United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022) was wrongly decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, when it stated that App… |
| 22-7263 | Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-6834 | Michael Laury v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 | 21 U.S.C. § 856 (A)(2) makes it unlawful to manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employ… |
| 22-6825 | Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6493 | Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury | Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri… |
| 22-6345 | Jeffrey Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a "controlled substan… |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I. W… |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 … | |
| 22-6117 | Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 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… |
| 22-5879 | Eugene Thurman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 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… |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced punishment o… |
| 22-5665 | Geoffrie Dill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does "controlled substance offense", as that term is used in U.S.S.G. §4B1.1 and defined by U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(b), refer only to those controlled substan… |
| 22-5472 | Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation | In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 22-5461 | James Keith Russey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h… |
| 22-5449 | Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5427 | Jade Christian Nichols v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5417 | Charles E. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer | Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5378 | Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5342 | Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of "controlled substance" control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5204 | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2… |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-5076 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410 applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 21-8123 | Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption | DID THE SUPERIOR COURT VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOUR TEENTH AMENDMENT (in its fullest context) AND THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT IN "PATTERS… |
| 21-8075 | Ricky Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) | Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-7070 | Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states | 1. Should courts defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying text? 2. Has the Commission impermissibly exp… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6332 | Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | A SPLIT EXISTS IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS REGARDING THE GRANTING BUYER-SELLER INSTRUCTION IN THE TRIAL OF FEDERAL CONSPIRACY AND DISTRIBUTION CASES. PE… |
| 21-6295 | Jmarreon Mack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 21-6280 | Johnny Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-6231 | Christopher Lee Scott v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
| 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… |
| 21-5872 | Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5633 | Roland J. McLain v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5413 | Antoine L. Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-5307 | Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Can a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law render a federal defendant a "career o… |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 21-5099 | Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a "controlled substance" by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5042 | John Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine as justificatio n for refusing to review an insufficiency of the evide… |
| 20-8310 | Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | 1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-8213 | James Atwood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does the undefined term "controlled substance" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines mean substances controlled by federal law, the federal Controlled … |
| 20-8189 | Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8084 | Gregory Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-7872 | Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing | I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 20-7798 | Christopher Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-20 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement | I. Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for purposes of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 20-7742 | Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7533 | Preston James v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7387 | Vaughn Lewis v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | When "controlled substance offense" is defined in the text of the Career Offender Guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), whether the commentary can add consp… |
| 20-7327 | Timothy A. Ward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law | Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7277 | Niles O'Neil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… |
| 20-7276 | Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release | 1) Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence. 2) Whether the district court erred by finding Mr. Montague gui… |
| 20-7284 | Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7286 | Kashus Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7204 | Shane Faithful v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7069 | Martell Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-7006 | Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi… |
| 20-6730 | Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6405 | Joshua Cato v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-6399 | Duwayne Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6311 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing | I. Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pink… |
| 20-6133 | Theodore David Newcomb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-5975 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA? 2. When defining an operative, bu… |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5321 | Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5284 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5054 | Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the "related to" test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense,… |
| 20-5055 | Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation | Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 19-8885 | Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? 2) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATI… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-7957 | Damar D. Ruffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review | 1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-7760 | Jeremy Achey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | 1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element … |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-7575 | Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing | Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 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… |
| 19-6834 | Lee Hope v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness | 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court … |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6775 | James Marione Butchee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6586 | Shane Inghels v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under the Armed… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6149 | Desmond Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing | Whether the Sentencing Commission violated the separation-of-powers doctrine when it added the offenses of conspiring, aiding and abetting, and attemp… |
| 19-5871 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent | 1) Did the district court error in increasing Havis base offense level based upon its belief that the Commentary to &4Bli2 appropriately includes atte… |
| 19-5789 | Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | 1. Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Senten… |
| 19-5491 | Shed T. Woods v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under th… |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 18A1368 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1365 | Juaquene Solomon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Presumed Complete | career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9604 | Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) … |
| 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… |
| 18-9069 | Hector Rengifo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead | Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court. Whether Pennsylvania's statute fo… |
| 18-8392 | Obinna Obiora v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions w… |
| 18-8265 | Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 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… | ||
| 18-7498 | Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision… |
| 18-6926 | James Valentine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |
| 18-6917 | Rodolfo Portela v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-6858 | Micah G. Pritchett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law | Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "se… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 18-6301 | Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution | A "serious drug offense," under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.s.c. § 924(e), is one involving manufacturing, distribution or possessing with int… |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… |