drug-use
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1328 | United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1247 | United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1249 | United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-5404 | Mani Panoam Deng v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge drug-use firearm-prohibition guilty-plea menna-blackledge-doctrine second-amendment | 1. Under this Court's Menna-Blackledge doctrine, where a challenger's constitutional "claim is that the [Government] may not convict [him] no matter h… |
| 23-5427 | Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause credibility credibility-evidence criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-usage drug-use evidence sixth-amendment | Whether Long Pumpkiw's right to confrontation was denied when the district court ruled that he could not cross-examine two important eye-witnesses "in… |
| 22-7437 | Kevin Darrell Miller v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contemporaneous-conduct criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-use evidence evidence-admissibility intent-standard mens-rea possession | Whether, in a drug distribution trial, evidence of a defendant's drug use and simple possession is admissible to prove mens rea if the use and possess… |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 19-7054 | Philip Rogers v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure drug-use evidence foreseeability ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt trial-strategy vehicular-homicide | Philip Rogers was driving after several drinks. Ahead of him a woman was jaywalking, possibly obscured by two bicyclists also crossing. When he saw th… |