burrage

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5516 Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing…