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24-7078 Guillermo Vasquez-Landaver v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-quantity federal-crime possession-with-intent schedule-drug standard-of-review state-offense Did the drug quantity determination and its application to either the federal crime of possession with intent to distribute or the state offense of fu…
24-6972 Michael John Stitts v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity guidelines-interpretation indictment leadership-role sentencing-enhancement Whether a federal sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(a) is permissible when leadership participants are charged in a separate indictment
24-6678 Omari Howard Patton v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity extrapolation leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines uncharged-participants Whether a leadership enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines 3B1.1(a) is permissible when drug quantity is extrapolated without chemist testimony…
24-6344 Tamir Abdullah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-range statutory-interpretation Does the statute of conviction or a drug quantity in the record determine eligibility for relief under Section 404 of the First Step Act?
24-6114 Davis Ennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-statute drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment Whether judicial fact-finding of drug quantity for an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence violates the Sixth Amendment when the defendant and governme…
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
23-6589 Reginald L. McCoy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior …
23-6524 Lynn Richard Norton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal crack-cocaine criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance obstruction-of-justice sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether Defense Counsel Jessica McAfee Performance Was Ineffective Assistance Under Strickland v. Washington
23-6493 Shannon Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m…
23-6148 Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge
23-341 Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
23-5605 Alfred John McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history drug-quantity due-process evidence-standard hemp marijuana procedural-fairness relevant-conduct Whether McDonald's right to due process was violated
23-5113 Charleton Maxwell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule Whether a higher degree of protection is required by the due process clause when the sentencing judge uses a mere preponderance standard to determine …
23-27 Michael Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the 'elements' of a defendant's offense…
22-7783 Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states Whether the Eleventh Circuit's limitation on First Step Act relief contravenes Terry's element-based determination of eligibility and Concepcion's hol…
22-7444 Julio Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts
22-6908 Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming a district court's reliance on a case agent's approximation of the weight of unseized cocaine based prima…
22-514 Edwar Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-sentencing-guidelines criminal-history criminal-sentencing dangerous-weapon dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-quantity eleventh-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing-factors Whether certiorari review should be granted
22-6166 Raymond Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned serial departures by the district court from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5183 Douglas Emmanuel Carey, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession drug-distribution drug-quantity evidence-reliability expert-testimony opinion-witness sentencing-determination voice-identification wiretap-evidence wiretap-necessity Whether the district court improperly allowed the admission of lay witness testimony identifying the defendant's voice, and whether the appellate cour…
21-7828 Kimberly Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines Who bears the burden of proving or disproving 'personal use' quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guideli…
21-7769 Lonnell Tucker v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-04 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in…
21-7638 Carlos Jimenez v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th…
21-7623 Mary Ann Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity in prosecutions under Title 21, Section 841
21-6966 Juan Sampel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence which questions a district court's drug quantity fin…
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
21-5715 Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off…
21-5518 John Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of 'bot…
21-5504 Eric Worley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the government failed to prove the drug quantity used to determine the defendant's base offense level by a preponderance of the evidence, in v…
21-5302 Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determinatio…
21-5271 Paul Surine v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine drug-conviction drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-interpretation recidivism-probability retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner Paul Surine should receive a reduced sentence under the First Step Act
20-8282 Anthony Herman Lucio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings findings judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines Whether the presentence report's calculations on the quantity of drugs under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2D1.1 attributed to the defendant wer…
20-7856 Dennis Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding harmless error
20-7461 David Kendrick v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregation alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rowe-interpretation threshold-quantity united-states-v-rowe Whether the government must prove the defendant conspired to actually possess the threshold drug amount at a given time, rather than rely on an aggreg…
20-7121 Georges Michel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's drug-quantity determination that exceeded the statutory-maximum based solely on t…
20-6841 Steven Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties Whether the statutory penalties in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modify the entire phrase — 'a violation of a Federal criminal statute' — or whether …
20-6802 Noel Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has bee…
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a federal district court must use the 'err on the side of caution' principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-6468 Kinzey Shaw v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
20-5759 Charles C. Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight judicial-interpretation relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the district court and circuit court misinterpreted and misapplied the 'relevant conduct' provisions of United States Sentencing Commission, G…
19-8702 Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level
19-8445 Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St…
19-7812 Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous
19-7804 Ramon F. Flores v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment Whether a defendant is procedurally barred from appealing the district court's original drug quantity determination in a sentence reduction applicatio…
19-7735 Ronnie Kearby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level burden-of-proof drug-conspiracy drug-quantities drug-quantity due-process evidence federal-courts non-testifying-coconspirator non-testifying-informant preponderance-of-evidence Whether a court may accept a mere allegation of estimated drug quantities from a non-testifying coconspirator informant as satisfaction of the Governm…
19-7118 Calvin Buffington v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-fact-finding section-3582 section-3582(c)(2) sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3582(c)(2) statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's failure to find a drug quantity when adopting PSR in its entirety authorized it to select a new quantity as a basis for t…
19-6619 Genesis Lee Whitted v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-weight fourth-circuit indictment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-1b1.3 time-interval Whether the district court improperly expanded Guideline § 1B1.3 by including drug amounts associated with conduct occurring significantly outside the…
19-6005 Robert L. Malone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal-History?
19-5856 Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification In a Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), may a district court make new findings of fact to recalculate drug-quantity beyond th…
18-9677 Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether this court should grant certiorari to address the proper application of law to fact relating to sufficiency of the evidence for quantity deter…
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9245 Martin Paul De-La-Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation judicial-review methamphetamine section-2d1.1 section-4a1.1 section-4a1.2 sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a sentencing court have to get its math correct when calculating the applicable federal sentencing guidelines?
18-8843 John Leroy Milne v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-identity drug-quantity due-process evidence reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Milne conspired to possess and knowingly possessed with inte…
18-8131 Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel whether-petitioner-received-effective-assistance-of-counsel
18-8107 Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
18-7814 William E. Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
18-7715 Jose Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule…
18-7419 Fausto Becerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner beyond the maximum punishment for the conduct he was 'accountable' for under the plea ba…
18-7282 Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Repo…
18-614 In Re George Houston 2018-11-09 Denied alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the individualized drug quantity or the amount of drugs attributable to the conspiracy as a whole can trigger the mandatory minimum sentence f…
18-6498 Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court erred in denying the motion for sentence reduction under Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) despite the minimal quantities of drugs …
18-6389 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court properly attributed 16.8 kilograms of heroin to Anthony Lomax during sentencing despite the dismissal of his conspiracy cha…
18-5770 John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con…
18-5663 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity …
18-5552 Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered a decision that is in conflict with its own precedent and the decision…
18-5177 Herman Majors v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is limit…
18-5121 Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment whether-it-is-a-sixth-amendment-and-due-process-violation-for-a-judge-at-sentencing-to-attribute-acquitted-and-relevant-conduct-by-a-preponderance-of-…