plain-text-analysis

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7163 Kyle Melkonian v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government …
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…