buyer-seller
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-8250 | Deandre McIntosh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer-seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg… |
| 21-6265 | Jonathan Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions | Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense is violated when the district court wrongfully declines … |
| 19-8731 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense | Whether the defense is entitled to a buyer-seller jury instruction when the instruction is part of the theory of defense and otherwise necessary for a… |
| 19-8692 | Robert Lee Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-relationship conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-distribution jury-instructions narcotics-law pinkerton-liability substantive-drug-charges | When the evidence in a drug distribution case demonstrates only two sales, what additional factors support an inference of a drug distribution conspir… |
| 18-6389 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court properly attributed 16.8 kilograms of heroin to Anthony Lomax during sentencing despite the dismissal of his conspiracy cha… |