drug-overdose
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-5516 | Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused… |
| 20-7632 | Shannon D. Hixon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED UNDER THE "DEATH RESULTS" PROVISION OF 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) WITHOUT INSTRUCTING THE JURY THAT IT MUST DECIDE … |
| 19-6865 | Delante L. Lunn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 18-6408 | Tiffany A. Prince v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |