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…