Steven Craig Whyte v. United States
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Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent 'drug experts' testifying regarding plain-English exchanges and common-sense topics within a jury's grasp
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether this Court’s Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent “drug experts” testifying regarding plain-English exchanges and common-sense topics within a jury’s grasp. Whether the Sixth Amendment and this Court’s jurisprudence within the last twenty years finally call for overturning the conclusions in Almendarez-Torres v. United States. Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits mandatory life sentences in strictliability circumstances such as Mr. Whyte’s, where even the government’s allegations showed Mr. Whyte did not distribute the lethal drugs to the decedent, did not know the decedent, and could not have known how the decedent would use the drugs or that the decedent would overdose on the drugs. i