Quirky titles aside, anyone practicing in the Ninth Circuit has been following the saga of Lorenzo v. Barr and its progeny and trying to determine if California’s definition of methamphetamine is broader than the federal definition. The Ninth Circuit seems to have finally laid the issue to rest, concluding that geometric isomers of methamphetamine do not exist as a matter of chemistry, and as such, there is no realistic probability that California prosecutes crimes involving a broader chemical definition of methamphetamine. RIP, Lorenzo - I’ll miss being able to quip that “meth isn’t really meth.”
The full text of United States v. Rodriguez-Gamboa can be found here:
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/08/27/19-50014.pdf