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 How is the quantity of controlled substances 'involved' determined for purposes of sentencing for conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. § 846, when the offense o…
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 whether-a-person-who-obtains-proceeds-and-makes-a-separate-and-distinct-agreement-from-the-anterior-criminal-conduct,-to-engage-in-a-financial-transac…
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
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 Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a 'buy-sell' defense jury instruction
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 Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Salinas v. United States, and Beck v. Prupis apply to the imposition of civil RICO § 1962(d) co-conspirator liability?
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 Whether the mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm 'in furtherance of' the conspi…
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 Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
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 What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new trial…