conspiracy-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5435 Antuan L. Wynn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-standard Whether charging a single conspiracy with proof of a chain of distribution relationships, and without proof that a defendant agreed to join the broade…
23-6495 Peter Burno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc…
23-6087 Ronell Whitehead v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe…
21-6775 Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro…
21-6679 Juan Jarmon v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented …
20-6526 Kendesia Juinize May v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 1. Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a "buy-sell" defense jury instruction when the government's evidence of a conspi…
19-695 Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states Pinkerton, Salinas, Beck, and mediate causation: Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 647, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L. Ed. …
19-6420 Christopher Mark Heath v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for…
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing 1)- WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS RIGHT'S SECURED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND DUE PROCE…
18-9712 Noe Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct (1) What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new t…