drug-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5204 Mario Onesimo Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment Whether a drug value "expert" contravenes the Confrontation Clause and Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. 779 (2024), when her testimony about the value of dr…
24-6766 David Lynn Griffith v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing WHETHER HISTORICAL DRUGS PURCHASED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE DEFENDANT CONSTITUTES RELIABLE EVIDENCE AT SENTENCING TO SUPPORT THE PURITY OF METHAMPHET…
22-7554 Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe…
21-7950 Enrique Alejandro Faz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-responsibility drug-conversation drug-evidence due-process evidence-discovery government-agent probable-cause warrantless-search - Whether it is unconstitutional to derive from an alleged phone call that the conversation is about drugs simply because an ag ent of the government…
21-6294 Robert Michael Junkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af…
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae At Wilson's jury trial the district court allowed testimony that Wilson sold drugs the day before the charged offenses as background evidence that was…
19-6241 Elfred William Petruk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983), that the search warrant for…