Notes of Decisions
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9 in the last 5 years), 1991–2024 · leading case:
Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019).
Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019).
· cites it 2× “21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(2). A third applies to a "parent [or] legal guardian" who allows his child to be used for child pornography.”
United States v. Abraham Hernandez, 330 F.3d 964 (7th Cir. 2003).
· cites it 6× “Counts 2 and 3 charged five of the defendants with using minors in a drug operation in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 . The remaining counts charged various individuals with substantive distribution offenses in viola *968 tion of 21 U.”
United States v. Bryan Burwell, 690 F.3d 500 (D.C. Cir. 2012).
· cites it 8× “§ 2423 (the Mann Act) (prohibiting transportation of juveniles across state lines for the purpose of prostitution); 21 U.S.C. § 861 (criminalizing use of a juvenile to commit or conceal a drug offense)—do not require proof of mens rea with respect to the juvenile’s age.”
United States v. Villanueva-Sotelo, 515 F.3d 1234 (D.C. Cir. 2008).
· cites it 6× “" 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(2). Again observing that the statute was "not a model of meticulous drafting," we explained that "[ o ] ne cannot tell from the words alone whether the person's juvenile status must be known .”
State v. Flores, 164 Wash. 2d 1 (Wash. 2008).
· cites it 6× “Similar to Washington’s law, 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1) and (2) makes it unlawful for any adult to “employ, hire, use, persuade, induce, entice, or coerce” a minor either to participate in a drug offense or “to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension” for a drug offense.”
State v. Flores, 186 P.3d 1038 (Wash. 2008).
· cites it 6× “Similar to Washington's law, 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1), (2) makes it unlawful for any adult to "employ, hire, use, persuade, induce, entice, or coerce" a minor to either participate in a drug offense or "to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension" for a drug offense.”
Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009).
· cites it 2× “employ, hire, use, persuade, induce, entice, or coerce, a person under eighteen years of age to violate” drug laws, does not require the defendant to have knowledge of the Cite as: 556 U. S. ____ (2009) 3 Opinion of ALITO, J.”
United States v. Polizzi, 549 F. Supp. 2d 308 (E.D.N.Y 2008).
· cites it 5× “§ 860 (b) Third offense; distribution of a controlled substance near’ a school or similar facility Mandatory minimum term of imprisonment specified at section 841(b)(1)(A) 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a) Employment or use of persons under 18 years of age in drug operations Mandatory minimum…”
United States v. Louis Zayas, 32 F.4th 211 (3rd Cir. 2022).
· cites it 6× “3 controlled substance to a pregnant individual in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 861 (f), 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C), and 18 U.”
United States v. Harris, 258 F. Supp. 3d 137 (D.D.C. 2017).
· cites it 3× “§ 845b, recodified at 21 U.S.C. § 861 . 4 Violation of this statute triggers imposition of a term of supervised release of “at least twice the term of supervised release otherwise authorized for a first offense.”
United States v. Frank Smith, Keith McCain Russell Ellis, Eric Wilson, Sherman Moore, Steven Pink & Charles Poteete, 223 F.3d 554 (7th Cir. 2000).
· cites it 3× “Counts 3, 4: Using minors to further drug conspiracy and to avoid detection, 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a), 18 U.S.C. § 2 . Counts 5-8, 10, 11, 13-17, 28, 38, 39: Possession and distribution of drugs by various individuals, 21 U.”
United States v. Bobby Carrol Cook, United States of Am. v. Bobby Carrol Cook, 76 F.3d 596 (4th Cir. 1996).
· cites it 3× “Cook’s primary contention is that the district court erred in failing to instruct the jury that it was required to find that he knew that the person from whom he received drugs was a minor in order to convict him of violating 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(3). Because § 861(a)(3) does not…”
United States v. Nazareth Wilson, 237 F.3d 827 (7th Cir. 2001).
· cites it 2× “For all this, he received a sentence of 420 months, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release.”
United States v. Puig-Infante, 19 F.3d 929 (5th Cir. 1994).
· cites it 2× “§ 2 and 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1). The case was tried before a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and on April 2, 1992, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts against all appellants except Perla De Los Santos.”
United States v. Andrew P. Chin, 981 F.2d 1275 (D.C. Cir. 1992).
· cites it 4× “§ 845b(a), recodified at 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a). This phrasing is not a model of meticulous drafting.”
United States v. Matthew Jones, 960 F.3d 949 (7th Cir. 2020).
“3d at 571–72, discussing 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a). Maez’s indictment did not contain a plain error.”
United States v. Ramirez, 708 F.3d 295 (1st Cir. 2013).
· cites it 4× “Ramírez further objected to any sentence enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 861 (b) for use of a person under 18 since he did not admit at the change-of-plea hearing that he knew BR was a minor.”
United States v. Charles E. Jones, Iii, A/K/A Chuckie, 471 F.3d 535 (4th Cir. 2006).
· cites it 2× “With regard to a similar statute, this court has held that conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(3) for receiving a controlled substance from a person under 18 years of age does not require proof that the defendant knew the other party was underage.”
United States v. Marciano Vasquez, 899 F.3d 363 (5th Cir. 2018).
“Count five charged the employment of minors in drug operations, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 .”
Rehaif v. United States, 588 U.S. 225 (2019).
· cites it 2× “21 U. S. C. §861 (a)(2). A third applies to a “parent [or] legal guardian” who al- lows his child to be used for child pornography.”
United States v. Lombardi, 138 F.3d 559 (5th Cir. 1998).
· cites it 3× “§ 2 , aiding and abetting possession with the intent to distribute; (3) violating 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1), (2), knowingly and intentionally employing, hiring, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a juvenile to commit a drug offense or to assist in avoiding detection…”
United States v. Benjamin, 391 F. App'x 942 (2d Cir. 2010).
· cites it 6× “Donald Benjamin’s Sentence on Count 24 Donald Benjamin was convicted on Count 24 of violating of 21 U.S.C. § 861 . That section makes it a crime, among other things, to “use” a “person under eighteen years of age to violate any provision of’ Title 21 of the United States Code.”
United States v. Pineda-Doval, 614 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. 2010).
“§ 859b, now codified at 21 U.S.C. § 861 ). A 10-year minimum sentence applies if a firearm is discharged during the commission of a drug trafficking crime.”
United States v. William G. Curtis & Jamell L. Rouson, 324 F.3d 501 (7th Cir. 2003).
“§ 846 ; employment of a minor in the distribution of crack cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1); two counts of the use of a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug conspiracy for two separate killings in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Kenneth James, 928 F.3d 247 (3rd Cir. 2019).
“See 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a) (making it unlawful only "for any person at least eighteen years of age to knowingly and intentionally - - employ .”
United States v. Lynard Joiner & James E. Collins, Also Known as Duke, 183 F.3d 635 (7th Cir. 1999).
· cites it 2× “§ 841 (a)(1), and employment of a juvenile in a drug offense, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1). After Joiner and Collins entered into separate, negotiated plea agreements, they were sentenced to 235 months’ and 360 months’ imprisonment, respectively.”
United States v. Brewer, 199 F.3d 1283 (11th Cir. 2000).
· cites it 3× “§ 841 (a)(1) (Counts 5 and 6), on one count of employment of a minor to distribute cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a) (Count 8), and on one count of use of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.”
United States v. Dunbar, 553 F.3d 48 (1st Cir. 2009).
“21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1). We agree. Considering the history of Dunbar and Spaulding, there is little doubt that Dunbar’s assault of Spaulding with a broom provides evidence probative of the fact that Dunbar coerced Spaulding to follow his instructions in implementing acts in…”
United States v. Stephen Golden, 102 F.3d 936 (7th Cir. 1996).
· cites it 2× “§ 924 (c), and employment of juveniles for drug distribution in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1). On appeal, Golden argues that the district court should have granted his mid-trial request for new counsel, that there was insufficient evidence for the district court to…”
United States v. Molina, 469 F.3d 408 (5th Cir. 2006).
“We recognize that Alarcon is not controlling because the panel in that case was considering whether there was sufficient evidence to support a conviction for the use of a minor in avoiding detection of an offense, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(2). See Alarcon, 261 *416 F.”
United States v. Cox, 577 F.3d 833 (7th Cir. 2009).
“For example, we have held that the Government need not prove that the defendant knew her victim was a minor in order to obtain a conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(1). United States v. Frazier, 213 F.”
United States v. Mata, 624 F.3d 170 (5th Cir. 2010).
“Alarcon reviewed the sufficiency of the evidence in support of a conviction for the use of a minor in avoiding detection in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(2), id., but we have previously found Alarcon to be “instructive as to what conduct constitutes use of a minor” under §…”
United States v. Prather, 205 F.3d 1265 (11th Cir. 2000).
“BARRETT, Circuit Judge: Vernon Victor Prather appeals his conviction for conspiracy to distribute pseu-doephedrine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 861 (d)(2) and 846, distribution of pseu-doephedrine in violation of 21 U.”
United States v. Garcia, 27 F.3d 1009 (5th Cir. 1994).
· cites it 2× “They assert that count one charged only a conspiracy to violate 21 U.S.C. § 861 (a)(2), which proscribes use of a minor to avoid detection or apprehension of an offense.”
United States v. Thomas L. Hudspeth, 42 F.3d 1015 (7th Cir. 1994).
“§ 860 ); and (5) involving a person under 18 years of age in a drug transaction ( 21 U.S.C. § 861 ). . The police reports do not establish with any certainty the sequence of the burglaries or the precise means of entry.”
United States v. Gregory M. Thomas, 114 F.3d 228 (D.C. Cir. 1997).
“§§ 845 (b), (a)(1) (1984) (now 21 U.S.C. § 861 (1996)), 841(a)(1) & 841(b)(l)(A)(iv) & (b)(1)(D) (Count 11).”
United States v. Corchado, 427 F.3d 815 (10th Cir. 2005).
“§ 841 (a)(1) and one count of using a minor to commit a drug offense in violation of 21 U.S.C §§ 861(a)(1) and (b). *817 The district court sentenced Defendant to eighty-seven months imprisonment.”
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United States v. Corchado, 427 F.3d 815 (10th Cir. 2005).
“§ 841 (a)(1) and one count of using a minor to commit a drug offense in violation of 21 U.S.C §§ 861(a)(1) and (b). *817 The district court sentenced Defendant to eighty-seven months imprisonment.”
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