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… |