cocaine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7157 Richard Lucas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation Whether a state statute's definition of 'cocaine' differs from the federal definition based on the plain, unambiguous language of the statutes
19-5480 Andrew Dorsey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of Fla…
18-9617 Randolph Harris Austin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards Whether the grand jury's indictment for cocaine base and the jury's instruction that it did not matter whether it was cocaine base or cocaine, which r…