No. 24-6740

Royel Page v. United States

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review
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Latest Conference: 2025-06-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

QP1: Whether evidence of repeat, distribution-sized drug transactions alone is sufficient to prove a drug conspiracy, as opposed to a mere buyer-seller relationship; QP2: Whether a district court can never plainly err by failing to give an unrequested buyer-seller jury instruction

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703 (1943), evidence of repeat, distribution-sized drug transactions alone is sufficient to prove a conspiracy, as opposed to a mere buyer-seller relationship, switching sides of a longstanding circuit split. II. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 590 U.S. 371 (2020), a district court can never plainly err by failing to give an unrequested buyerseller jury instruction, creating a split with three circuits holding that the party-presentation principle does not preclude plainerror review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) .

Docket Entries

2025-06-16
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/12/2025.
2025-05-22
Reply of Royel Page submitted.
2025-05-22
Reply of petitioner Royel Page filed.
2025-05-12
Brief of United States in opposition submitted.
2025-05-12
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2025-04-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 12, 2025.
2025-04-03
Motion of United States for an extension of time submitted.
2025-04-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 10, 2025 to May 12, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 10, 2025)

Attorneys

Royel Page
Vanessa Kolbe EisenmannJacobs Law Office S C, Petitioner
Vanessa Kolbe EisenmannJacobs Law Office S C, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent