Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Burgess v. United States, 553 U.S. 124 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the interpretation of the words "federal drug offense" in the Controlled Substances Act.Keith Lavon Burgess was convicted in a South Carolina state court for cocaine possession. The maximum sentence under state law was two years. The offense was punishable by more than one year, but South Carolina considered it a misdemeanor, not a felony.. }
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- Burgess_v._United_States comment "Burgess v. United States, 553 U.S. 124 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the interpretation of the words "federal drug offense" in the Controlled Substances Act.Keith Lavon Burgess was convicted in a South Carolina state court for cocaine possession. The maximum sentence under state law was two years. The offense was punishable by more than one year, but South Carolina considered it a misdemeanor, not a felony.".