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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6845 | Michael Henderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm-enhancement presentence-investigation-report safety-valve-relief sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether, under Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(D), a district court's order for additional briefing on safety valve eligibility – which notes t… |
| 25-6641 | Ervin Thornton, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac… |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a "Controlled Substance Offense" for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25-5861 | Julius Rucks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission | Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels, when there is no evidence that the defendant misrep… |
| 25A203 | Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6729 | Justin Lang Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner? 2. Can a district court … |
| 24-6567 | Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the four level enhancement to petitioner's sentencing range for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which… |
| 24-5880 | Eric Schmidt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 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… |
| 24-5144 | Richard Villareal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 24-5031 | Keith White v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 | Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 23-7357 | Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7327 | Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7292 | Morris Fuller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 23-6899 | James Earl Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense federal-statute sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions ussg-4b1.1 | 1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that Mr. Robinson's prior state conviction… |
| 23-6879 | Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington | Washington | 2024-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law | 1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be… |
| 23-6707 | Sean Robert Wathen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement | 1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-6555 | Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 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? … |
| 23-531 | Timothy I. Carpenter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Amici (2) | criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-firearm-offense first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | Do the sentencing reforms in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply when a district court sentences an individual whose offense was committed before … |
| 23-6042 | Joel Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 23-5812 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 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… |
| 23-5338 | Keith A. Penn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | IFP | attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a "controlled substance offense" to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5036 | Brandon Mason v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-7806 | Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-7791 | Clark Downs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 15-year-old circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing interstate-commerce safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT AS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ELEMENT ON COUNT ONE, WHICH CHARGED SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A FIFTEEN YEAR … |
| 22-7792 | Diante Turman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in | Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing… |
| 22-7736 | Brandon Ross Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing | Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 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… |
| 22-6837 | James Randolph Sherman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-fairness criminal-conspiracy drug-offense due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-speculation loose-practice non-incriminating-evidence unfairness-to-defendant | Does the U.S. Constitution embrace a criminal conspiracy conviction when the government presents non-incriminating evidence of innocent conduct regard… |
| 22-6389 | Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6391 | Nonami Palomares v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-history drug-crimes drug-offense federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I. W… |
| 22-6063 | Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio… |
| 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… |
| 22-5346 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness | 1. Whether the District Court erred by instructing the deliberate-indifference instruction based upon the facts in this case when it denied defendant'… |
| 21-7852 | Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un… |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-7773 | Eric Middlebrook v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for… |
| 21-7759 | Mikkel McKinnie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance | I. Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a D… |
| 21-7598 | Irvin Garces v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.… |
| 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… |
| 21-7139 | Bradley Scott Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-level-score criminal-procedure drug-offense judicial-discretion methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(2) USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(4) | Did the trial court commit error when it calculated the appellant's sentencing guideline base level score using the enhanced "Ice" guideline value und… |
| 21-7128 | Cornelius Riley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Should this Honorable Court extend the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases sig… |
| 21-6762 | Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law in… |
| 21-917 | Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6166 | Ángel De la Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6130 | Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-5825 | Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2021-09-29 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidence expert-witness mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines | Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court error to akfirm the trial Coust's suling where the trial Court was convinced by the Sthte's 'thired-party gui… |
| 21-5413 | Antoine L. Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-5386 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5352 | Vernon D. Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 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… |
| 20-7936 | Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession | The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7446 | Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) | In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement 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… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement 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… |
| 20-6789 | Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6529 | Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 | Jesse Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… |
| 20-6314 | Jovon Antoine McClures v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-6137 | Arvester Lamonica Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense force knowledge-requirement physical-force robbery robbery-offense snatching statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Does a state robbery offense that may be committed through mere snatching "have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical… |
| 20-5853 | Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. |
| 20-5854 | Trumaine Muller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause | I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-5740 | Edward Mahan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines | DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT? DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T… |
| 20-5507 | Laci Landers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5408 | Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status | WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5051 | Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums | Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 19-1200 | Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-04-08 | Denied | 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | GIVEN A TRAFFIC STOP MADE BY THE STATE TROOPER, WHO WAS THE "DOG HANDLER" INVOLVED, WAS ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING HIS TICKET WRITING, WHEN… | |
| 19-8034 | Whitney Atkinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crack-cocaine drug-offense fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Did Mr. Atkinson receive a sentence for a covered drug offense, such that he should be eligible for retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act… |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7878 | Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation | Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7314 | Johnny L. Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | acca acca-predicate-offense actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states florida-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense shular strict-liability supreme-court-review united-states-v-smith | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses… |
| 19-7234 | Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-780 | Willie Newton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing | In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully… |
| 19-6602 | Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance | I. Whether a cell phone, when used by law enforcement to obtain "precise location information," is a "tracking device" under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b). II.… |
| 19-6389 | Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6363 | David Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6370 | Troy Bennett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony | I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84… |
| 19-6288 | Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) where the district court … |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5928 | Marcos Santiago v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5575 | Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 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… |
| 19-5480 | Andrew Dorsey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-5278 | Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5102 | Dan Pizaro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 18-9547 | Antwan Bernard Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act drug-offense eleventh-circuit elonis-v-united-states franklin-v-united-states mens-rea resisting-officer sentencing-enhancement strict-liability united-states-v-smith violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in finding Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offenses qu… |
| 18-9189 | Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction | Arkansas | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing | PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE DRUG OFFENSES AND SENTENCED BY THE JURY TO A TOTAL TERM OF 90 YEARS. THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT FOUND INSUFFICIENT E… |
| 18-8932 | Vickie L. Sanders v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
| 18-8911 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8885 | Jose Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED LINER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE "TOOLS OF THE TRADE" AND THAT ALWAYS IS FOR… |
| 18-8900 | Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-8793 | Larry Burstein v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | WHETHER A FORTY-EIGHT (48) MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A FIRST TIME NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, SIXTY-NINE (69) YEAR OLD GRANDFATHER, IS UNREASONABLE, VI… |
| 18-8708 | Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta… |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8145 | Desmond Farmer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender | The District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division denied the petitioner a reduction in his sentence under 3582 and Amend… |
| 18-8051 | Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-7966 | Desmond Smith v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights drug-offense generic-federal-offense generic-offense sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-law-definition state-statute | Whether the ACCA's definition-of a "serious drug offense" imposes a sentence enhancement or make an exception when a state's definition of "delivery a… |
| 18-7938 | Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7920 | Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | "Whether; Dean v. United States, 581 U.S. (2017) permits a district court the discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive s… |
| 18-7818 | Marcos Castaneda v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
| 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… |
| 18-7393 | Rodrigo Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis | Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… |
| 18-7067 | Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 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… |
| 18-7057 | Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes V. U.S., 584 U.S. 2018, No. 17-155, apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way… |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6518 | Gregory Crum v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct. 2; Whether Greg Crum should receive a leadership enhancement. 3… |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "se… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 18-6335 | George Jenkins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process first-time-offender non-violent-crime proportionality reasonableness-review sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE SENTENCE IMPOSED IS UNREASONABLE A. Whether a One Hundred Forty-four (144) month prison sentence for a first time non-violent, drug deale… |
| 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… |
| 18-5930 | Timothy Walker v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. | Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5935 | Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5912 | Robert Kimmell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-disclosure drug-offense due-process fair-trial informant informant-disclosure jury-instructions lesser-included-offense relevance verdict-form witness-disclosure | Did Kimmell establish that disclosure of the informant was relevant and helpful to his defense, or essential to a fair determination of his cause? Di… |
| 18-5839 | James Frederick Rebmann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5748 | Rory Allen Meeks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment | QUESTION I: Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions: - In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5380 | Luis Lopez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction | Does a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maxim um term of imprisonm en… |
| 18-5329 | Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… |
| 18-5221 | Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |