fentanyl

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6366 Jarrett Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not specify the timing of the confidential informant's obser…
25-5861 Julius Rucks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing drug-offense fentanyl misrepresentation sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission Whether, under the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(13), a defendant's offense can be enhanced by four levels when there is no evidence of misrepresentation and w…
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 Whether Petitioner's counsel's actions constituted a waiver or forfeiture of the argument that the government failed to prove Petitioner distributed t…
19-8158 Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa…