inchoate-offenses
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-7587 | Jondell Middlebrooks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | career-offender crime-of-violence guidelines-manual inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses physical-force sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by omission, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threaten… |
| 23-6492 | Delondo Henderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a 'controlled substance… |
| 22-7552 | Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines | Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 22-5237 | Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of 'controlled substance offense'… |
| 21-7609 | Desmond Deleon Carviel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law career-offender-guideline district-court-discretion guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | May a district court defer to the Sentencing Guideline commentary without first determining if the guideline is genuinely ambiguous |
| 21-6403 | Garland Guillory v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission | Whether a district court may rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's Guidelines range for … |
| 21-5872 | Antonio Donnel Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 21-5714 | Jayren Jakar Wynn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-precedent controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses kisor-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines | Whether a circuit court may properly rely on circuit precedent predating Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), to hold, contrary to Kisor, that the… |
| 20-8215 | Aaron Walton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll… |
| 20-8202 | Otis Hill v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 | Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 |
| 20-7742 | Deandre Joseph Warren v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-7533 | Preston James v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
| 20-7387 | Vaughn Lewis v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | agency-deference career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the commentary can add conspiracy and other inchoate offenses not included in the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' |
| 20-7277 | Niles O'Neil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to § U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 20-7099 | Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of 'controlled substance offense' to add inchoate offenses n… |
| 20-7069 | Martell Roberts v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses precursor-offense precursor-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of 'controlled subs… |
| 20-6242 | Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of 'controlled su… |
| 20-5267 | Kolongi Richardson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not legal… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled-substance-offense' |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) |
| 19-7811 | Marcus Scott Crum v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary to its definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7335 | Chad Prodoehl v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a 'results in death' statutory enhancement can apply to a 21 U.S.C. § 846 conspiracy offense, and if so, whether that element must be agreed u… |
| 19-7103 | Edward Merritt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the definition of 'controlled substance offense' in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to reaso… |