drug-overdose
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-5516 | Antrell Desharron Lewis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion burrage burrage-standard criminal-procedure drug-overdose habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance in light of this court's holding in Burrage by failing to investigate the drug alleged to have caused… |
| 20-7632 | Shannon D. Hixon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | Whether a defendant may be convicted under the 'death results' provision of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) without instructing the jury that it must decide … |
| 19-6865 | Delante L. Lunn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the but-for test in Burrage v. United States should be re-evaluated for mixed drug overdoses that result in death where no drug distributed by… |
| 18-6408 | Tiffany A. Prince v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2 |