felony-drug-offense
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A535 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement | This document does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The text contains questions posed within the Background section of an ex… | |
| 20-7617 | Willie Lee Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | One: Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for "felony drug offense" to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, al… |
| 20-7465 | Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The District Court Judge sentenced the Petitioner to life in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine , 21 U.S.C. Sect. 841(a)(… |
| 20-6557 | Richard Cruz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 19-8783 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-6687 | Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-38 | Malcolm McGee v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response Waived | california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack | When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a "successful attack" on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem… |
| 18-9772 | William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 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… |
| 18-7388 | David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-6665 | Maurice T. Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |