plain-text-analysis

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7163 Kyle Melkonian v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's conflation of 18 U.S.C. § 641's two distinct offenses runs afoul of the plain text of the statute, its application by e…
20-5628 Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months' in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two 'serio…