government-burden-of-proof

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-8250 Deandre McIntosh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller buyer-seller-rule criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process government-burden-of-proof knowledge knowledge-requirement stake sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a defendant can be convicted of drug conspiracy when he was no more than a buyer-seller and the government failed to establish he had knowledg…
21-1297 Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act imposes a burden on the government to demonstrate that it has actually considered and rejected the effic…
21-5485 Yamilet Diaz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-kickback conspiracy criminal-liability due-process federal-health-care government-burden-of-proof intended-victim jury-instructions medicare-fraud Whether jury instructions control the validity of a conviction rather than case law
20-7181 Quincy O'Neill Taylor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm firearm-possession government-burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dye united-states-v-frady Whether the phrase 'in furtherance of' in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A) requires the government to show a 'nexus' between the firearm and the drug traffickin…
19-1032 Alphonso I. Waters, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process government-burden-of-proof government-evidence intent-to-harm jury-charge target-deception wire-fraud Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated