drug-sentencing
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6790 | James Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the … |
| 22-5472 | Aaron Michael Shamo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-drug-abuse-act chemical-compound chemical-compounds controlled-substance counsel-waiver cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-distribution drug-sentencing eighth-amendment essential-elements fentanyl statutory-interpretation | In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which provided for a mandatory life without parole sentence for drug offenders who distributed very … |
| 21-7342 | Alejandro Salinas Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act least-harsh-sentence multiple-drug-types sentencing-parameters statutory-penalties statutory-sentencing | Does the record demonstrate that a defendant was sentenced in accordance with the FSA1 for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, involving multiple drug type… |
| 21-6294 | Robert Michael Junkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search | 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
| 20-7218 | Crystal Zuniga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-856 congressional-intent double-counting drug-involved-premise drug-sentencing fair-sentencing-act precedent sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress intended The Fair Sentencing Act to more severely punish persons sentenced under 21 U.S.C. §856 in what is a departure from over 20 y… |
| 20-6108 | Antoine Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 19-8604 | Dontarius Marquis Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure drug-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HALL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYI… |
| 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 Decisio… |