Dorian Ragland v. United States

Dorian Ragland requests a certificate of appealability (COA) following the district court’s denial of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his conviction and sentence for distribution of heroin resulting in death in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (prohibiting distribution of controlled substances), and (b)(1)(C) (if death or serious bodily injury results from use of substance, defendant shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 years or more than life). In Ragland v. United States, 756 F.3d 597, 601-02 (8th Cir.2014), we remanded this case to the district court “for further…