drug-felony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5857 | Russell Kimble Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure drug-felony first-step-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. After the First Step Act enactment date of December 21, 2018. Is it true it now takes two or more "serious drug felonies" or two or more prior "ser… |
| 24A66 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-error drug-felony harmless-error jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. This case concerns the standard of review for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a jury. The Sixth Amendment provides that, in all crimina… | |
| 22-7461 | Detrick Devone Daye, aka Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach constitutional-rights drug-felony first-step-act ineffective-assistance sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | I Whether the new statutory definition of the term "serious drug felony" set forth in Section 401(a)(1) of the First Step Act of 2018, and codified i… |
| 20-5628 | Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
| 18-9615 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession | THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |