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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5986 | Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c… |
| 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… |
| 25-5570 | David Curran v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below … |
| 25A171 | Robert Monteiro v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Application | drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 25A99 | Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution drug-conspiracy eleventh-circuit maritime-drug-law plea-agreement vessel-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 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 … |
| 24-7450 | Zachery James Edward Rowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller-rule complete-defense criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy jury-instruction sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision affirming the refusal to give a buyer-seller instruction in a drug conspiracy case conflicts with this Court's … |
| 24-7032 | Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation | Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-6740 | Royel Page v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703… |
| 24A569 | Jarrell Raeshon Bordeaux v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirators drug-conspiracy federal-criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency intent-to-distribute narcotics-charges | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5378 | Mitchell Danyell Banks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-destruction expert-testimony fundamental-fairness | Is expert testimony as to drugs, which were destroyed pursuant to a Court order following the defendant's Alford Plea in a state case, a violation of … |
| 23-7616 | Jacob Ray Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 23-7461 | Shane A. Fox v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty | I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-6413 | Donald Bill Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering | 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d… |
| 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… |
| 23-6087 | 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… |
| 23-6051 | Stephen Aguiar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii cares-act case-or-controversy drug-conspiracy home-confinement prison-term supervised-release | DOES A PRISONER SERVING A -36 MONTH PRISON TERM FOR REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE CONCURRENT WITH HIS 360 MONTH PRISON TERM FOR A DRUG CONSPIRACY… |
| 23-2 | Gerald Spruell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 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… |
| 22-6597 | Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent | Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 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… |
| 22-5547 | Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28 USC 2255 claim, where the District … |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 21-8278 | Glen Hunsberger v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the aggregation of two statutes, one requiring specific intent, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the other, strict liability, 21 U.S.C. § 860, requires a … |
| 21-8250 | Deandre McIntosh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg… |
| 21-1584 | Martin Louis Ballard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | drug-conspiracy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial murder-for-hire sixth-amendment | Issue I: Is the right of Martin Ballard to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a fair and impartial fact finder in his trial… |
| 21-7957 | Samuel Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt | Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev… |
| 21-7473 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his Civil Right to Due Process against law without due process of law in Violation of the Constitution and Law… |
| 21-6803 | Javier Rosales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse o… |
| 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… |
| 21-6282 | Tannous Fazah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement | I. In August 2013, petitioner was indicted in federal court, in part, on charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Petitioner was all… |
| 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… |
| 21-6265 | Jonathan Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions | Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give … |
| 21-6087 | Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-5511 | Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | IFP | alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5431 | Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5400 | Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 20-8383 | Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER, AFTER THE PETITIONER PLED GUILTY TO A DRUG CONSPIRACY AND TWO FIREARM CHARGES UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 924(0), RESULTING IN MANDATORY MINIMUM SEN… |
| 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 … |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-1523 | Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights | 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… | |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | I. In the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection, where no trial objection was made but the error was … |
| 20-7461 | David Kendrick v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregation alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rowe-interpretation threshold-quantity united-states-v-rowe | In applying a mandatory sentence in a drug conspiracy case, does Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct. 2151 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013), when re… |
| 20-7438 | Christopher Stegawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing | # 1 - When pain of more than three months duration becomes chronic pain (Ohio definition) and dependence (ie. addiction) forms after three months of o… |
| 20-6807 | Jamal Clinton, aka Moreless v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bostock-precedent bostock-v-clayton-county career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense drug-conspiracy fair-and-not-arbitrary sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-3553a6 | 1. Whether sentencing courts are required by Title 18, United States Code section 3553(a)(6) and Supreme Court precedent interpreting unambiguous stat… |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… |
| 20-6590 | Jimmy Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines… |
| 20-6433 | Byron Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it found that Byron Jones was guilty of a RICO conspiracy? 2. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appea… |
| 20-6374 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 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… |
| 20-5890 | Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit | Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should… |
| 20-5458 | Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 19-7735 | Ronnie Kearby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence | 1. In a federal drug conspiracy case where there is no drug seizure, may a court accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-test… |
| 19-7557 | Lance Yarbough v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution | 1. Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the … |
| 19-7363 | Richard Grady Romans v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution felony-enhancement occasions-different predicate-offense serious-drug-offense substantive-offense violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a felon who possesses a firearm is subject to an enhanced sentence if he has three p… |
| 19-7335 | Chad Prodoehl v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation | As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 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… |
| 19-6942 | Savon Germain Carter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution | A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mi… |
| 19-6491 | Matthew Shaffer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing | 1. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO CONDUCT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING CONCERNING THE AFFIDAVIT RELIED UPON IN OBTAINING THE SEARCH WARRANT AND FURTHER… |
| 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… |
| 19-5747 | Jamall Gibson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial | QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… |
| 19-5346 | Jose Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 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… |
| 18-7579 | David L. Price v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-6672 | Marciano Millan Vasquez, aka Chano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting drug-conspiracy due-process kingpin-statute murder | Whether the extraterritorial application of 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) to murders occurring wholly outside the United States violates the presumption ag… |
| 18-6498 | Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines | The United States District Court of New Mexico denied the motion for reduction the sentence, Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) spite the quantity of drugs inv… |
| 18-6399 | Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy | 1. IN THIS CASE, THE OFFICER CONDUCTED INVENTORY SEARCH OF A CLOSED CONTAINER WITHOUT A WRITTEN POLICY GOVERNING THE SEARCH OF SUCH CONTAINERS. WHETHE… |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6094 | Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa | Under Brady v. Maryland, is the prosecution and the DEA required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA … |
| 18-5973 | Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 18-5452 | Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-5281 | Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony | The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda… |
| 18-5177 | Herman Majors v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |