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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6742 | Gezo Goeong Edwards v. United States | District of Columbia | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process indictment-defect ineffective-assistance mens-rea | Whether an indictment charging conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance fails to state an offense due to grammatical placement of the adverb 'k… |
| 25-935 | United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) prohibiting firearm possession by persons with certain criminal convictions violates the Second Amendment as applied to de… | |
| 25-6622 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether courts should apply the categorical approach to determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) by comparing elements of prior … |
| 25-6326 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does the smell of legal, low-THC marijuana provide probable cause for law enforcement to conduct an extensive search behind the internal framing and u… |
| 25-6217 | Christopher Wuchter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25-6218 | Kenleone Joe Nyandoro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver controlled-substance firearm-possession ineffective-assistance second-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds th… |
| 25A535 | Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Application | controlled-substance drug-possession felony-drug-offense ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant's prior state drug possession convictions qualify as 'felony drug offenses' under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) for purposes of imposing a ma… | |
| 25-5967 | Lynell Guyton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-act constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement due-process | Whether the Drug Enforcement Act's failure to schedule an analogue implicates constitutional due process rights and allows prosecution for controlled … |
| 25-5878 | Detrayous D. Curry v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-conviction drug-offense federal-schedule sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the definition of a 'Controlled Substance Offense' for purposes of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2 includes a prior state law conviction for a cocaine offense… |
| 25A410 | United States v. Aldo Ali Cordova Perez, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Presumed Complete | 922(g)(3) as-applied-challenge controlled-substance facial-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether a federal statute criminalizing firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances is facially or as-applied unconstitutional under… | |
| 25-5816 | William Loydellton Speed, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller-exception career-offender-guideline controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-law state-law | Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Career Offender Guideline refers to substances controlled under federal or state law, and whether the c… |
| 25-372 | Erik Matthew Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Pending | Amici (2) | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-statute firearm-possession marijuana-use second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)'s prohibition on firearm possession by marijuana users violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutionally vague |
| 25A371 | Rashun Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the categorical approach in interpreting a state controlled substance statute and disreg… | |
| 25A253 | Patrick Miller Webb, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-sentencing fifth-amendment pro-se sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a criminal conviction and sentence when the petitioner claims inadequate legal representation and limite… | |
| 25-5465 | David Nicholson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession controlled-substance criminal-procedure dominion-and-control intent-to-distribute post-offense-admission | Whether a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 841 for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance can be sustained based solely on constructi… |
| 25-5454 | Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court | Whether the trial court violated the United States Constitution by deviating from Florida's standard jury instruction on death by unlawful distributio… |
| 25-5297 | Christopher Jerome Ellis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the career offender guideline refers exclusively to substances listed in the federal Controlled Substances … |
| 25-5226 | Nashaun Drake v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether courts should determine a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) based on the substances controlled at the time of the prior c… |
| 25-5091 | Andres Burgara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense drug-possession simultaneous-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Does the simultaneous possession of one type of controlled substance in two different locations constitute a single offense under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1… |
| 24-1328 | United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-1247 | United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-1248 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-1249 | United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by unlawful drug users, violates the Second Amendment |
| 24-7070 | In Re Shawn Michael Chalifoux | 2025-04-24 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy controlled-substance false-testimony grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution | Does an Assistant U.S. Attorney have the authority to present perjurious testimony and/or false declarations before a grand jury and/or district court… | |
| 24-6936 | Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac… |
| 24-6898 | Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' as that term… |
| 24-6410 | Antoine Wiggins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines refers only to substances controlled under federal law or also includes substance… |
| 24-6222 | Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights controlled-substance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation state-police-powers | Whether North Carolina's Controlled Substance Act and Federal Substance laws violate constitutional rights regarding marijuana possession and use |
| 24-6204 | Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard | Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo… |
| 24-5996 | Todd Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-offense federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a 'controlled substance offense' under § 4B1.… |
| 24-5231 | Dean Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions eligible for the career offender sentencing enhancement in 28 U.S.C. § 994(h) must involve a 'controlled substance' as … |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 24-5031 | Keith White v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 | Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of 'controlled substance offenses' for purposes of sentenc… |
| 23-7676 | Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a '… |
| 23-7542 | Anthony Obute v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights appellate-waiver controlled-substance criminal-procedure pharmacy-operations plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a defendant's waiver of appellate rights in a plea agreement remain enforceable when the Presentence Investigation Report applies an enhancement … |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Due-process-violation |
| 23-7190 | Trivansky Swington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 23-7075 | Breon D. Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user | Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury concerning the Section 924(c) charges? |
| 23A757 | Breon Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user | Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(3), which criminalizes firearm possession by unlawful drug users, is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment | |
| 23-6692 | Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement | Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may be s… |
| 23-6673 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care | Whether the stringent harmless error language from Neder applies to Ruan-based jury instruction error? |
| 23A661 | Andrew Tablack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-indictment federal-crime scheduling statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal drug indictment fails to state a valid offense when the alleged controlled substance is not explicitly scheduled in the U.S. Code or… | |
| 23-6499 | Pete Manning v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction | Whether the term 'controlled substance' is defined by the drug schedules that existed at the time of the prior predicate conviction, or the drug sched… |
| 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… |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6394 | Andrew Tablack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation | Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) that requires the CDS named in the indictment to be listed on the Controlled Substance Schedules at th… |
| 23-6314 | Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) |
| 23-6135 | Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6118 | T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review | Is the definition of 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or state law? |
| 23-6074 | Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession | Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy is violated when convictions and sentences are entered for unlawful use of a weapo… |
| 23-5782 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the meaning of the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-376 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) violates the Second Amendment |
| 23-5604 | Ernesto Ordunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the elements cl… |
| 23-5587 | Daniel Carrington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court's decision in United States v. Burrage created a bright line rule on proof of proximate cause |
| 23-198 | Jamar M. Lewis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance federal-law predicate-conviction sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the Sentencing Guidelines is defined at the time of the predicate conviction or when federal consequences a… |
| 23-5358 | Devin Jerrod Long v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Can a federal judge impose a sentence enhancement based on a prior drug conviction inclusive of a substance that is no longer controlled at the time o… |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr… |
| 23-5236 | Marvas Aurelien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses | Whether the 'controlled substance' definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at th… |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a 'controlled substance offense' to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 22-7898 | Anthony Lamart Lawrence v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7903 | Denvy Hoffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 22-7864 | Tommy Lee Hubbard, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence civil-rights controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process federal-courts hemp legal-interpretation marijuana marijuana-classification thc-threshold | Can the federal courts rely exclusively upon circumstantial evidence to decide that a marijuana substance is illegal, when the circumstances surroundi… |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance' under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7736 | Brandon Ross Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing | Whether the categorical approach for determining a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act applies the federal definition of 'contr… |
| 22-7716 | Minnela Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-7675 | Quanathan Naiji Knox Ivery v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-conviction eighth-circuit federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-7552 | Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines | Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the term 'knowingly or intentionally' requires the Government to prove that the defendant knew what substance he or she was distributing to ob… |
| 22-7385 | Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision in United States v. Jackson |
| 22-7263 | Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 'controlled substance offenses' under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances listed … |
| 22-6834 | Michael Laury v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 | Whether the Government is required to show that drug activity constitutes the primary or principal purpose of the property, or only that drug distribu… |
| 22-6825 | Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether prior convictions for inchoate offenses involving 'delivery' of controlled substances, where the state statute includes 'attempted transfer' a… |
| 22-6493 | Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury | Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) unconstitutionally deprive federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury? |
| 22-6345 | Jeffrey Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a 'controlled substance … |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 'Conspiracy' to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guidelines Section §4B1.2 |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L… | |
| 22-6117 | Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'controlled substance' from the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) is limited to substances that are fe… |
| 22-5902 | Monica Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5879 | Eugene Thurman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 22-5816 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment for drug type and quantity without proof of knowledge |
| 22-5665 | Geoffrie Dill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does 'controlled substance offense' refer only to substances prohibited by the Controlled Substance Act? |
| 22-5472 | Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner's counsel's actions constituted a waiver or forfeiture of the argument that the government failed to prove Petitioner distributed t… |
| 22-5461 | James Keith Russey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like 'controlled substance' uniformly |
| 22-5449 | Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5427 | Jade Christian Nichols v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5417 | Charles E. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer | Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5378 | Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5342 | Patrick LaJuan Jones, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing preemption sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does a state definition of 'controlled substance' control a federal sentencing enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines, when the state lists subst… |
| 22-5204 | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government must show the defendant's regular or habitual drug use to establish that the defendant is an 'unlawful user' of a controlled su… |
| 22-5076 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | Should Petition Womack's conviction be vacated? |
| 21-8123 | Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption | Did the superior court violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and the dictates of this court in 'Patterson v. New York', 432 U.S. … |
| 21-8075 | Ricky Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) | Is the term 'controlled substance' in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-7070 | Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states | Should courts defer to Sentencing-Guidelines-commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying-text? |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate 'controlled substance offenses' for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does the term 'controlled substance offense' as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6332 | Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | issue-being-raised |
| 21-6295 | Jmarreon Mack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 21-6280 | Johnny Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
| 21-6231 | Christopher Lee Scott v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-375(B) are divisible into three offenses |
| 21-6111 | Jonas Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence | Whether the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that Mr. Ross distributed the controlled substance that resulted in the death of K.P. is in conflict with Burr… |
| 21-5872 | Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 21-5633 | Roland J. McLain v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) includes substances excluded from the Controlled Substances Act |
| 21-5413 | Antoine L. Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 21-5307 | Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law can render a federal defendant a '… |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Guidelines' definition of a 'controlled substance offense' is limited to only those state and federal crimes that… |
| 21-5099 | Thomas Javion Guerrant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Does a state conviction for distribution of a substance not defined as a 'controlled substance' by federal law qualify as a career offender predicate … |
| 21-5042 | John Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine | Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine conflicts with this Court's plain-error-jurisprudence |
| 20-8310 | Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific fin… |
| 20-8213 | James Atwood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does the undefined term 'controlled substance' in the federal Sentencing Guidelines refer to substances controlled by federal law or state law? |
| 20-8189 | Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8084 | Gregory Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7872 | Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing | Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? |
| 20-7798 | Christopher Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-20 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement | Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame 'committed on occasions different from one another' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal… |
| 20-7742 | Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-7533 | Preston James v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7387 | Vaughn Lewis v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the commentary can add conspiracy and other inchoate offenses not included in the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' |
| 20-7327 | Timothy A. Ward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law | Whether the term 'controlled substance' in the federal sentencing guidelines should be defined by federal law or the law of the state where the prior … |
| 20-7277 | Niles O'Neil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to § U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 20-7276 | Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release | Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence |
| 20-7284 | Tyrell Donte Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline. § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit n… |
| 20-7286 | Kashus Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the 'controlled substance offense' definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7204 | Shane Faithful v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully 'dispensed' the substance, u… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant can be convicted and subjected to enhanced punishment under 21 U.S.C. § 841 without proof that he knew the drug type and quantity |
| 20-7069 | Martell Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-7006 | Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi… |
| 20-6730 | Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Whether, under McFadden v. United States, a defendant pleading guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the sub… |
| 20-6405 | Joshua Cato v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Whether, under McFadden v. United States, a defendant who pleads guilty to knowingly distributing a controlled substance must admit that he knew the s… |
| 20-6399 | Duwayne Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a 'controlled substance offen… |
| 20-6311 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing | Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pinkert… |
| 20-6133 | Theodore David Newcomb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority |
| 20-5975 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the phrase 'controlled substance' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA? |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether courts must give deference to the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining career offender status |
| 20-5321 | Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a certificate of appealability |
| 20-5284 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5054 | Michael Lance Davis, aka Michael Scott Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-sentencing distribution manufacturing ninth-circuit possession-with-intent-to-distribute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether Shular v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 779 (2020), abrogates the 'related to' test for whether a state crime qualifies as a serious drug offense |
| 20-5055 | Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation | Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 19-8885 | Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the panel err by holding that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled-substance-offense' |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 19-7957 | Damar D. Ruffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance |
| 19-7760 | Jeremy Achey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Whether the government must prove that a defendant conspired to distribute the specific controlled substance analogues charged in the indictment |
| 19-7731 | Michael Herrold v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary controlled-substance controlled-substances drug-distribution generic-burglary generic-definition intent intent-element overbreadth state-statute statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines 'burglary' in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly apply the line of authority from this Court beginning with Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to 'controlled substance offense', 'serious drug offense', and 'felo… |
| 19-7575 | Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing | Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7057 | Johnny L. Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the 'death results' enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 19-6834 | Lee Hope v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness | Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6775 | James Marione Butchee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Do having one violent felony and one controlled substance conviction qualify citizens to be a career offender? |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | Whether the term 'controlled substance offense' defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) is ambiguous |
| 19-6586 | Shane Inghels v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under the Armed… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6149 | Desmond Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims |
| 19-5871 | Patrick Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent | Did the district court err in increasing the defendant's sentence based on the Guidelines definition of 'controlled substance offense'? |
| 19-5789 | Jamar Lynn McMillan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-03 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense pennsylvania-law predicate-offense rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5491 | Shed T. Woods v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction divisibility drug-offense indiana-code-35-48-4-1 indiana-statute serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in cocaine or narcotic drug under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1 is improperly considered a 'serious drug offense' under th… |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining a predicate offense for career-offender enhancement |
| 18A1368 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substance crime-of-violence felon-in-possession motion-to-suppress sentencing-guidelines third-circuit | Whether a prior state robbery conviction qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under the United States Sentencing Guidelines for purposes of sentence enh… | |
| 18A1365 | Juaquene Solomon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Presumed Complete | career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Whether a district court's career offender determination under the United States Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an improper judicial enhancement of… | |
| 18-9604 | Reitilly Fuentes Ramos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon enhancement pellet-gun sentencing-guidelines ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the District Court calculated Mr. Fuentes-Ramos's Sentencing Guidelines when it applied a two-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §2D1.1(b)(1) … |
| 18-9574 | Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-9069 | Hector Rengifo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead | Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court |
| 18-8392 | Obinna Obiora v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions with… |
| 18-8265 | Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definition of a 'controlled substance offense' without Congressional app… |
| 18-1064 | In Re Octavious DeMont Williams | 2019-02-13 | Denied | 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial | Octavious Demont Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the… | ||
| 18-7498 | Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition |
| 18-6926 | James Valentine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals commit error in applying 21 U.S.C. §851 sentence enhancement? |
| 18-6917 | Rodolfo Portela v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance |
| 18-6858 | Micah G. Pritchett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law | Whether the Virginia offense of distribution of a controlled substance categorically qualifies as a 'controlled substance offense' under the U.S. Sent… |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the broader Pennsylvania delivery of a controlled substance statute, 35 Pa. C.S.A. § 780-113(a)(30), qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offe… |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a 'se… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p… |
| 18-6301 | Darrell Lynn Dancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-procedure district-court factual-innocence predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement unlawful-distribution | Whether the Appeals Court and District Court erred by failing to address Petitioner's factual innocence claim |
| 18-5835 | Juan Fernando Lizarraga-Leyva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking drug-trafficking-crime illicit-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a state drug-trafficking conviction with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felo… |
| 18-5684 | Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation | whether a state drug-trafficking crime with no mens rea element or a mens rea element different than federal law constitutes the 'aggravated felony' o… |
| 18-5654 | Willie Lee Daniels v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Mathis v. United States is retroactive to cases on collateral review |
| 18-5274 | Manuel Vega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision | Whether a court fulfills the mandate of Mathis v. United States if it looks only to whether a state defendant can be punished more than once for posse… |