No. 25-5435

Antuan L. Wynn v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-08-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: conspiracy-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-standard
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether charging a single conspiracy with proof of a chain of distribution relationships, and without proof that a defendant agreed to join the broader charged scheme, violates the Due Process Clause

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

This Court has long upheld the due process right of a defendant not to be charge d a single conspiracy when the proof at trial establishes multiple separate conspiracies. Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750 (1946) . Here, the government charged Antuan Wynn as part of a sprawling rimless wheel conspiracy involving disparate fentanyl and cocaine trafficking. Wynn was acquitted of the sole drug distrib ution charge against him but convicted him of conspiracy when he at most supplied drugs to a single alleged co -conspirator, who had other unconnected cocaine suppliers and obtained fentanyl from entirely different sources. The question before this Court is as follows: Whether charging a single conspiracy with proof of a chain of distribution relationships , and without proof that a defendant agreed to join the broader charged scheme , violates the Due Process Clause.

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-09-05
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-09-05
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-08-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 22, 2025)

Attorneys

Antuan Wynn
Benton C. MartinFederal Community Defender, Petitioner
Benton C. MartinFederal Community Defender, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent