continuing-criminal-enterprise

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A855 Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application continuing-criminal-enterprise effective-assistance jury-trial narcotics-violation sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires unanimous jury findings for each separate narcotics violation in a Continuing Cri…
24-126 Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness when applied to unscheduled substances with no objective scien…
23A559 Colin Montague v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-statute fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment predicate-violations Whether an indictment charging a Continuing Criminal Enterprise (CCE) offense must specify the predicate violations with sufficient factual detail to …
22-7309 James H. Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied IFP continuing-criminal-enterprise covered-offense criminal-enterprise drug-weight drug-weight-threshold fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range Whether the First Step Act's 'covered offense' analysis turns upon whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the sentencing range for violation of a gi…
20-8036 Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict Whether the jury should be required to return a special verdict form addressing all essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), in tha…