No. 19-7952

Michael Deon Thompson v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability
Key Terms:
JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the language 'death or serious bodily injury results from' in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or proximate cause requirement?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether the language “death or serious bodily injury results from” in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or proximate cause requirement? 2. Whether a person distributing heroin can be convicted of causing serious bodily injury when his heroin was redistributed to an end user and his original distribution was not the last “but for” cause of the serious bodily injury? 1

Docket Entries

2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-18
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2020-03-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Michael Thompson
Jacob Austin BlizzardBlizzard & Zimmerman, PLLC, Petitioner
Jacob Austin BlizzardBlizzard & Zimmerman, PLLC, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent