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United States v. Ronald Collins

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Declined by some courts
Court
Fourth Circuit
Citation
415 F.3d 304
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
58 of 58
Citing cases (total)
58
Treatment dates
2014
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. United States v. Ronald Collins has one confirmed adverse treatment: all 58 flagged citations have been read, and the Ninth Circuit's refusal to use Collins's remedy is listed below. The Ninth Circuit agreed that the jury instruction on drug quantity was erroneous but chose a different remedy.
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The other reviewed opinions applied Collins or directed their adverse language at other decisions.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

58 later cases cite United States v. Ronald Collins; 58 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Declined to follow

  • The Ninth Circuit declined to follow Collins's remedy of giving the government a choice between resentencing under the default drug penalty and retrying the conspiracy charge; it allowed retrial of the drug quantity issue alone.

    United States v. Vera · Ninth Circuit · filed

    In concluding that only the drug quantity findings must be vacated, we decline to follow the remedy adopted by the First Circuit in United States v. Delgado-Marrero, 744 F.3d 167 (1st Cir. 2014), and the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Collins, 415 F.3d 304 (4th Cir. 2005).
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