death-enhancement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6212 Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol…
21-8116 Demarco Tempo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the 'death results' enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841?