| 25A535 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
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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… |
| 20-7617 |
Willie Lee Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances-act felony-drug-offense first-step-act sentence-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does the First Step Act's addition of a definition for 'felony drug offense' to section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 802, also al… |
| 20-7465 |
Johnny Andres Asuncion, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carachuri-rosendo-v-holder criminal-sentencing felony-drug-offense mandatory-minimum ninth-circuit-precedent predicate-offense recidivism sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit ruling is inconsistent with prior rulings and ignores Supreme Court precedent |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness after Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis |
| 19-8783 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness |
| 19-7665 |
Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to 'controlled substance offense', 'serious drug offense', and 'felo… |
| 19-6687 |
Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a 'felony drug offense' under the Controlled Substances A… |
| 19-38 |
Malcolm McGee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-law federal-sentence-enhancement felony-drug-offense recidivist-sentence-enhancement recidivist-sentencing resentencing retroactive-reduction sentence-enhancement state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-remedy state-prison-sentence successful-attack |
When does a state post-conviction remedy qualify as a 'successful attack' on a state prison sentence, such that a subsequent federal sentence enhancem… |
| 18-9772 |
William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Florida offenses of sale of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(1)(a)(1) and possession of cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13(6)(a) are 'felo… |
| 18-8708 |
Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the decision handed down in Mathis v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have st… |
| 18-7388 |
David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |
| 18-6665 |
Maurice T. Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the intent of Congress was to restrict the application of 21 U.S.C. § 841's recidivist enhancement to prior drug trafficking crimes that quali… |