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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.