drug-possession
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 25A398 | Osvaldo Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute drug-possession eleventh-circuit-review federal-interdiction maritime-drug-law vessel-jurisdiction | Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act's provisions criminalizing drug possession on vessels subject to U.S. jurisdiction are constitutional an… | |
| 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… |
| 24-5773 | Sedric Q. Sutton v. Charlton Smith, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation drug-possession fourth-amendment illegal-seizure search-warrant summary-judgment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in granting summary judgment denying damages for illegal search and seizure when Sutton allegedly failed to create a g… |
| 24-5451 | Martin Moncada-de la Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-possession intent-to-distribute material-evidence witness-deportation | Whether proof of possession with intent to distribute requires showing control over drugs beyond mere touching, and whether deportation of a material … |
| 23-7477 | Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing 'any sentence of imprisonment' can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 22-7589 | Troy G. Saxton v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 brown-v-ohio certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy drug-possession habeas habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists spatial-units | Whether a habeas petitioner satisfies his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) for the issuance of a certificate of appealability |
| 22-7264 | Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing | Whether an illegal search and seizure took place |
| 22-7249 | Daryl Lee Godette Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard possession reasonable-doubt | Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Godette possessed the heroin found in the apartment |
| 22-6793 | Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and Coun… |
| 22-6338 | Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty | Whether the United States Department of Justice and Federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute illicit drug possession crimes committed solely with… |
| 22-5406 | Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California | California | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | Whether California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 violates the Second Amendment by making possessing certain drugs while armed a felony |
| 22-5139 | Carol Johnene Morris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred in failing to vacate the federal convictions for felon in possession of a firearm and a related acquittal |
| 21-6759 | Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct | Is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel due to her lawyer's conflict of interest? |
| 21-269 | Anthony Carter v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements | Whether a reviewing court may uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by technical elements beyond the understanding of an ordinary factfinde… |
| 21-5211 | Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing | Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense? |
| 20-8280 | Trent Slone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal drug-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearms firearms-violation presumption-of-innocence sentencing | Does the presumption of innocence and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment protect a defendant at a firearms violation sentencing when the go… |
| 20-5421 | Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation | Whether simple possession under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) is a legally permissible racketeering predicate incident under Fla. Stat. §§ 895.02(1)(a), 8… |
| 19-8263 | Larry Wesley Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter… |
| 19-7255 | Fernando Duran v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acknowledgment criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard jury narcotics-law reasonable-doubt | Does the due process clause's requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt obligate the government in a drug possession case to present evidence of … |
| 19-7171 | Samuel Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power | Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? |
| 19-6603 | Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers… |
| 18-9565 | Casey Stoermer v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances |
| 18-8268 | Alandis D. Patterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process presentence-investigation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sexual-abuse | Did the trial court err in overruling the Petitioner's objection to the Application of a two-level increase pursuant to U.S.S.G. Section 2G1.1(c)(1), … |
| 18-1054 | Jason Allen Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions | Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution | |
| 18-6122 | Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure | Whether a reasonable person would feel free to ignore a federal agent's direct accusation of drug possession and go about her business of boarding a p… |
| 18-5978 | John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions neither of which had the… |
| 18-5874 | Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner? |