| 25A422 |
Chanson A. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-conviction firearms-prohibition military-justice supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5231 |
Dean Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 23-5358 |
Devin Jerrod Long v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 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… |
| 22-7898 |
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… |
| 22-7675 |
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… |
| 22-6344 |
Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule.
Whether the… |
| 21-5271 |
Paul Surine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
The most important question to be resolve by the US Supreme Court is if Petitioner Paul Surine and others in his own situation should be given a reduc… |
| 20-1586 |
Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-6216 |
Michael E. Torres v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion |
1. The Fourth Amendment requires that police have probable cause before subjecting an individual to an arrest. Police surrounded Appellant, ordered hi… |
| 20-6169 |
Tykei Garner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci… |
| 19-8770 |
Carl St. Preux v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations |
As such, the question presented here is whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e), which clearly applies at and during federal sentencing proceedings, usurps and sup… |
| 19-8070 |
Kenney Shi Lai v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agricultural-improvement-act civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction hemp-production standing takings |
2) BERICH TO USE A U.S. PASSPORT INADUANCEMENT
3) RESOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF IULEGAL GUARDIANSIAIF COMPANY ASSISTED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMEN… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 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… |
| 18-7797 |
Coree Patrick v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach conduct-based-approach drug-conviction drug-offense predicate-conviction predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PRIOR STATE CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE IS A QUALIFYING PREDICATE CONVICTION UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), 18 U… |
| 18-6926 |
James Valentine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |