cocaine-definition

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7147 Idris Quintell Wilkes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act cocaine-definition controlled-substances due-process sentencing-enhancement state-vs-federal-law Does Michigan's broader definition of cocaine under state law preclude sentence enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act when compared to feder…
23-6454 Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition Did the district court err in counting Hutchins's Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance offense for career offender under the Sentencing G…
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