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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6751 | Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review controlled-substances drug-distribution medical-practice regulatory-definition subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the lower federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant, who was an authorized practitioner with the authority to admini… |
| 25A865 | Thomas Keller v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Application | attorney-general-regulation congressional-delegation controlled-substances criminal-liability intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 25-691 | Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care | Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a de… |
| 25A537 | Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vera Cooper, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substances dangerous-persons firearm-possession historical-tradition medical-marijuana second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25A465 | Christopher Wuchter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | circuit-conflict constitutional-question controlled-substances criminal-justice firearms-possession second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5913 | Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation | 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow… |
| 25-5908 | Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment | 1. May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant … |
| 25-5830 | Kortney Moore v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-inaction career-offender controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Defendants who have at least two prior "controlled substance offense" convictions qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.… |
| 25-5790 | Kyle Davey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… | |
| 25-5412 | Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause controlled-substances federal-preemption marijuana-regulation necessary-and-proper-clause tax-deduction | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 280E—which denies ordinary and necessary business deductions to enterprises trafficking in Schedule I controlled substances—may co… |
| 25-61 | Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5117 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances jury-instructions medical-purpose mens-rea plain-error subjective-intent | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), this Court answered the question on whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substance… |
| 24-7147 | Idris Quintell Wilkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act cocaine-definition controlled-substances due-process sentencing-enhancement state-vs-federal-law | I. Michigan defines cocaine to include its steroisomers. Federal law defines cocaine to include its optical and geometric isomers. Does Michigan law s… |
| 24-900 | Parvez Anjum Qureshi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process jury-instructions mens-rea | Where the district court misinforms and errone ously instructs the jury as to the mens rea requirement for Title 21 U.S.C. § 841( a), in violation of … |
| 24A778 | Frank H. Bynes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution healthcare-fraud medical-practice prescription-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6489 | Dzung Ahn Pham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent mens-rea prescription-authorization regulatory-definition statutory-interpretation | I. Is authorization under the Controlled Substances Act defined in terms of the regulatory definition of an effective prescription or by the plain mea… |
| 24-6051 | Ralph Berry v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cannabis-regulation circuit-court controlled-substances cross-border-transactions federal-law interstate-commerce | Question not identified. |
| 24-6006 | Michael Tyrone Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled… |
| 24-525 | John L. Stanton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … |
| 24-5457 | Larome Deon Waiters v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 24-137 | Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … | |
| 24-126 | Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness as applied to the substance XLR-11? 2. Whether a co-defend… | |
| 24-5089 | Devonte Antonio Veasley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process facial-challenge firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which restricts the Second Amendment rights of all users of controlled substances, facially unconstitutional? |
| 23-7411 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7388 | Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-1183 | California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez | California | 2024-05-02 | Denied | attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights | 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings and prevent the State, like… | |
| 23-7297 | Marcus Bennett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 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… |
| 23-7096 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m… |
| 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… |
| 23-959 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-04 | GVR | Amici (4) | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation | The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23A734 | Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent | 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… |
| 23A704 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6495 | Peter Burno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing | Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6492 | Delondo Henderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23A598 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution good-faith jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 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 … |
| 23-6130 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit | 1. On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Sylvia Hofstetters convictions and remanded for furth… |
| 23-6122 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Newman's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6116 | Cynthia Clemons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr… |
| 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… |
| 23-5947 | Kraig M. Trotter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph… |
| 23-5665 | Shajuan Orlando Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions 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… |
| 23-5591 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage | For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-5602 | Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs… |
| 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… |
| 23-5303 | Jeanne Germeil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure expert-testimony good-faith jury-instructions medical-practice ruan-v-united-states | 1. Whether the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Ruan v. United States Warrants Certiorari Review of the Court's Refusal to Instruct the Jury … |
| 23A106 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-7864 | 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… |
| 22-7731 | Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof | In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w… |
| 22-7690 | Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 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… |
| 22-1059 | Jorge Marc Gonzalez-Betancourt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-forfeiture collateral-estoppel controlled-substances double-jeopardy exhaustion fifth-amendment ruan-v-united-states state-prosecution | After losing their civil forfeiture appeal, the City of Tampa turned over the exact same evidence to the State of Florida in a successful attempt to c… |
| 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… |
| 22-7359 | Devin Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 22-7282 | David William Linder v. Brian Lammer, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-statute federal-cases jury-instructions mens-rea standing supreme-court-rule-14.1(b) | Can the drug death statute, 21 § 841(b)(1)(C) be enlarged to include analogue drugs? Can a McFadden review of a defendant's mens rea be performed by … |
| 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… |
| 22-6902 | Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6881 | James Clark, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 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… |
| 22-6503 | Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment | 1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet… |
| 22-6467 | Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether the erroneous decision of the Trial Court to instruct the jury that the United States… |
| 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 … |
| 22-6000 | Norman Clement v. Drug Enforcement Administration | District of Columbia | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-cfr-1306.04(a) administrative-deference controlled-substances corresponding-responsibility dea-registration medical-purpose pharmacy-responsibility prescription-legitimacy | 1. Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) by being required to operate beyond licensing requirement… |
| 22-5877 | Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5693 | 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… |
| 22-5638 | Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5394 | Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is imperm… |
| 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… |
| 22-120 | Suntree Pharmacy, et al. v. Drug Enforcement Administration | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-deference administrative-law controlled-substances dea dea-registration deference legitimate-medical-purpose medical-purpose prescription prescription-filling regulatory-interpretation | Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) and knowingly fills a prescription for a controlled substanc… |
| 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… |
| 22-5075 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 21 U.S.C. §856(a)(1), the "crack house statute", requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant, "except as authorized by… |
| 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… |
| 22-5077 | Cynthia Clemons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-856 controlled-substances dea-authorization drug-enforcement-administration drug-involved-premises healthcare-provider legitimate-medical-purpose ruan-v-united-states scope-of-professional-practice subjective-standard | Petitioner Clemons, an advanced nurse practitioner authorized by the Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances under the supe… |
| 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… |
| 21-8148 | Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-15 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics | May a Physician Alledged to have Prescribed controlled substances outside the Usual Course of Professional Practice be convicted of Unlawful distribut… |
| 21-8099 | Darnell McConnell, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-1418 | Medardo Queg Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-04 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. If a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or ou… |
| 21-1409 | Prince Bixler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated by a pretrial ruling that he could not… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7574 | Danyel Black v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 21-7495 | Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court | I. Does the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qua… |
| 21-7391 | Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-7157 | Richard Lucas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation | 1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of "cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
| 21-7163 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? II. When def… |
| 21-6952 | Sunrise Lee v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pr… |
| 21-994 | John Kapoor v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional pract… |
| 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 … |
| 21-6280 | 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… |
| 21-6111 | 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… |
| 21-5982 | Marcus Matthews v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-precedent controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines georgia-criminal-code sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Does a conviction under Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("OCGA") § 1613-30 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of enhancing a … |
| 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 … |
| 21-5752 | Ivan Alexandrovich Vetcher v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court civil-rights controlled-substances court-access-rights deportation-challenge dismissal-with-prejudice due-process immigration immigration-law pleadings pro-se pro-se-pleading | Did DC and COA properly apply the requirements for pleadings as applied in most circuits? Did DC and COA deny Vetcher's right to amend? |
| 21-5612 | Geontay Patterson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | I. Mr. Patterson moved to suppress controlled substances found during a search of his person because there was no constitutional basis to seize and se… |
| 21-269 | Anthony Carter v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements | In a sufficiency analysis under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), may a reviewing court uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by te… |
| 21-54 | In Re Chad Anthony Ray | 2021-07-15 | Denied | constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure | Whether "liberty" in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power? Whether the operation and effects… | ||
| 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… |
| 20-8138 | Eddy Pena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation | Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 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… |
| 20-1571 | Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | analogue-act analogue-enforcement-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness. 2. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcemen… |
| 20-7991 | Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation | Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-7974 | Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances delivery offer-to-sell serious-drug-offense texas | I. Whether the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes an offer to sell, includes conduct that does not qu… |
| 20-7934 | John Patrick Couch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-05 | GVR | Relisted (6)IFP | affirmative-defense controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions medical-practice standard-of-care | Did the trial court error by conflating the Valid defense of a crime as an element of that crime in its instruction to the jury regarding a physician … |
| 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… |
| 20-1410 | Xiulu Ruan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (5) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation | A physician otherwise authorized to prescribe controlled substances may be convicted of unlawful distribution under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) if his presc… |
| 20-7363 | Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO… |
| 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… |
| 20-1205 | Gazelle Craig v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation | When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin… |
| 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… |
| 20-6730 | 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… |
| 20-6346 | Demarcus D. Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing | 1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague. 2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is… |
| 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… |
| 20-6156 | Arlene Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | black-v-romano burden-of-proof controlled-substances drug-identification due-process fundamental-fairness probation-revocation state-narcotics texas-narcotics | Whether the Government's failure to prove a suspected substance is actually a dangerous drug or controlled substance in a probation revocation case pr… |
| 20-6027 | Michael Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-221 | Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines | 1. Can a jury be instructed that it may convict based on a criminal defendant's conscious avoidance of knowledge of a necessary fact, without needing … |
| 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… |
| 19-1313 | Donovan Dave Dixon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzalez-v-oregon medical-malpractice medical-practice mens-rea standard-of-care | Whether juries must be instructed that the government must prove that a physician acted with the mens rea of intent as to issuing a prescription outsi… |
| 19-8525 | Julio Gabriel Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances conversion criminal-defendant drug-conversion due-process fifth-amendment lsd self-incrimination sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are implicated by the oxycodone-to-marijuana conversion required by U.S. S.G. § 2D1.1. |
| 19-1296 | Helix TCS, Inc. v. Robert Kenney | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-15 | Denied | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act fair-labor-standards-act federal-drug-crime federal-drug-crimes marijuana-trafficking minimum-wages private-right-of-action tenth-circuit-ruling uniform-application-of-federal-law | Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., confers a private right of action to recover minimum wages for conduct that violates t… | |
| 19-8380 | Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib… |
| 19-8218 | Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest | This petition asks an important question: whether modern criminl- forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and and whether petit… |
| 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 —… |
| 19-7965 | Cedric Edney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b | Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7797 | Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 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 (… |
| 19-7623 | Sinyo Silkeutsabay, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cannabis-regulation civil-rights controlled-substances court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-preemption federal-response medical-marijuana state-law state-legalization washington-marijuana-laws washington-state-law | Did the Courts below err in their analysis of Washington State law governing growing and selling medical marijuana? |
| 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… |
| 19-7364 | Ernest William Singleton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage | I WHEN A JURY FOUND SINGLETON GUILTY OF COUNT 10 OF THE IMDICTMENT, WHICH ALLEGED THAT HE DISTRIBUTED "ULTRAM "; HOW CAN IT BE DETERMINED THAT THE J… |
| 19-6513 | Deyoe R. Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review controlled-substances criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federal-law federalism free-speech sentencing-disparity standing takings | ①Is it clear that like one hondred years ago with esulted in ALL Americans? or 2sayt x0t pvo apogba hds o4 t2g SI② ubstances because people will use t… |
| 19-6436 | Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration | District of Columbia | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment | The DEA relied exclusively on an internal agency precedent to declare that because private market actors on the Massachusetts medical board suspended … |
| 19-6348 | Billy J. Griffin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substances divisibility drug-statute federal-sentencing felony-convictions missouri-law state-convictions statutory-interpretation | Question 1. Is the Missouri Controlled Drug Statue indivisible such that the Defendant's two distribution of marijuana felony convictions in state cou… |
| 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… |
| 19-6108 | Corey Kidd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-5983 | Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5975 | Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … |
| 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… |
| 19-5491 | 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… |
| 19-5303 | Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5110 | Barry Bays v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 18-1585 | Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm | 1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-1582 | Bryan A. Krumm, CNP v. Drug Enforcement Administration | District of Columbia | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law cannabis-scheduling controlled-substances controlled-substances-act dea federalism mandamus-relief medical-marijuana medical-use scheduling witness-testimony | 1. Can the Attorney General and DEA continue Schedule 1 placement of Cannabis now that it has "accepted medical use" in 33 States, the District of Col… |
| 18-9168 | Melissa Owens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights | Question not identified. |
| 18-8847 | Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt | I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credi… |
| 18-8861 | Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale | 1. Can a citizen be convicted of the uncharged crime of selling a Controlled Substance to Police Confidential Informant (C. I. #884902), but be charge… |
| 18-8625 | Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Illinois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a "contributing c… |
| 18-8380 | Woodrow Pressey, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-enhancement criminal-history drug-conviction drug-offenses florida-statute florida-statute-893.13 predicate-offense prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses | 1. Whether prior convictions under Fla. Stat. §893.13 qualify as "serious drug offenses" for purposes of the ACCA, §924(e)(2)(A)(ii). 2. Whether Flor… |
| 18-1141 | Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine | New Hampshire | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in failing to find that the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medic… |
| 18-7264 | Joel E. Miller v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzales-v-oregon jury-instructions medical-malpractice medical-practice medical-practitioner prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care united-states-v-moore | Because many controlled substances have medical uses, the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") authorizes doctors and other medical practitioners to issu… |
| 18-7079 | Franklyn Morillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted | 1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though … |
| 18-7032 | Reginald L. Lomax v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 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… |
| 18-6413 | 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)? |
| 18-427 | Masoud Bamdad v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules | Should a habeas proceedings court adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making its final judgment and closing the case, or otherwise suc… |
| 18-6016 | Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation | In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-5904 | Donavan Cross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence | (1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-5497 | Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense | 1. Is Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA when state law defines "distribution" to include "transport with i… |