drug-purity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6569 Jamarcus G. Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-purity evidence-standard methamphetamine preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court can infer that unseized methamphetamine has similar purity to seized methamphetamine. If so, what specific evidence must supp…
24-6766 David Lynn Griffith v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing Whether historical drugs purchased by someone other than the defendant constitutes reliable evidence at sentencing to support the purity of methamphet…
23-7616 Jacob Ray Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the purity of methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's methamphetamine was simil…
23-6672 Christopher R. Williams, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court drug-purity drug-quantity methamphetamine-case procedural-errors sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines whether-the-district-court-erred-by-sentencing-the-defendant
22-7676 Rene Lugo-Barcenas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights drug-purity due-process equal-protection methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment ussg-2d1.1 Does the fifth amendment's due process and equal protection rights guard against disparate sentences created by the Methamphetamine Drug Table under U…