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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6569 | Jamarcus G. Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-purity evidence-standard methamphetamine preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court can infer that unseized methamphetamine has similar purity to seized methamphetamine. If so, what specific evidence must supp… |
| 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… |
| 23-7126 | Alberto Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses due-process judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards | Does the district court's blind reliance upon United States Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(c)(1)'s draconian base offense level of 38 for distribution o… |
| 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… |
| 23-6493 | Shannon Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6068 | Jermaine Deshan West v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines | "Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. §994(2) (l)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Co… |
| 23-5947 | Kraig M. Trotter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure deterrence due-process federal-sentencing methamphetamine methamphetamines proportional-punishment sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Did the Third Circuit err in failing to consider the disparity in sentencing under U.S.S.G §2D1.1(c) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for methamph… |
| 23-5454 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility | 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e… |
| 23-5213 | Deangelo Devon Grant v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-interpretation judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-weight sentencing-guidelines | Does utilizing a provision of the United States Sentencing Guidelines for " actual " weight of methamphetamine, rather than the charged offense of " m… |
| 23-5088 | Quinton Troy Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process jury jury-finding methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment | WAS IT A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SIXTH AMENDMENT WHEN THE TRIAL COURT SENTENCED THE PETITIONER TO A TERM OF 360 MONTHS. THE JURY … |
| 22-7676 | Rene Lugo-Barcenas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights drug-purity due-process equal-protection methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment ussg-2d1.1 | Claim #1 Does the fifth amendment's due process and equal protection rights guard against disparate sentences created by the Methamphetamine Drug Tabl… |
| 22-7498 | Joel Armando Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cooperating-defendants cooperating-witnesses criminal-procedure drug-weight fourth-circuit methamphetamine offense-level plea-bargaining relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY EXPANDED GUIDELINE § 1B1.3 BY INCLUDING AS RELEVANT DRUG WEIGHT UNCORROBORATED STATEMENTS OF TWO COOPERATING DEF… |
| 22-7055 | Terrindez Xsidrick Bryant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines booker-kimbrough-precedent district-court district-court-authority judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance united-states-v-booker | In Kimbrough v. United States, 552 U.S. 85 (2007), this Court held that a district court had the authority, at sentencing, to reject the advice of the… |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5112 | Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing | Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one … |
| 21-7616 | Andrew Ussery v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 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… |
| 21-6284 | Marc Blane Baccus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-trafficking criminal-sentencing drug-importation drug-trafficking guideline-enhancement importation methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense mexico sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Appellant's Sentence should have been enhanced for methamphetamine Importation from Mexico under §2D1.1(B)(5) 2. Whether Appellant's Guide… |
| 21-6233 | Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine | 1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-5782 | Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a… |
| 20-6968 | Kenton Lance Light v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-28 | Denied | IFP | abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence tha… |
| 20-6590 | Jimmy Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines… |
| 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… |
| 20-5458 | Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5335 | Dustin Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Issue I Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 19-8702 | Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level. 2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-7590 | David K. Howell v. Shawn Hatton, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication methamphetamine methamphetamine-intoxication sixth-amendment | This Court has repeatedly held that to receive a certificate of appealability ("COA"), a habeas petitioner need only show that "'jurists of reason cou… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement 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 … |
| 18-9245 | Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Court of Appeals erred by not requiring the District Court to correctly apply the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Specifically, the sentencing cour… |
| 18-8728 | Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2019-04-08 | Denied | IFP | corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility | Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi… |
| 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… |
| 18-5516 | Isaiah Galbreath v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |