Jake Ellis Daughtry v. United States of America, Case No. 1:24-cv-529 in the Eastern District of Texas, [Dkt 1-1] - Memorandum in Support

Dec 30, 2024

In the criminal action, United States of America v. Jake Ellis Daughtry [Case No. 1:20-cr-55] in the Eastern District of Texas, the prosecution alleged the sale of 1,4 butanediol was illegal. Court documents filed in Jake Ellis Daughtry v. United States of America [Case No. 1:24-cv-529], show it was not unlawful for Right Price Chemicals, LLC to sell 1,4 butanediol. The laws the DEA and the Department of Justice relied on to seize the Daughtry family’s property and put Jake Daughtry in jail for 15 years do not support the prosecution as set forth logically by Dr. Todd Prough of Chapman Consulting Group. Dr. Todd Prough retired from the DEA in 2022 after having focused on diversion control for the DEA after 25 years of service. His reputation and conclusions are outlined in his report, but his conclusion is that there was no conduct that supported the Government’s allegation that a crime had been committed.

Jake Daughtry’s lawyer at the time of his guilty plea, Dustin Galmor, relied on the Government’s web page to advise his client 1,4 butanediol was a controlled substance analogue to GHB. GHB had been the subject of emergency scheduling but that emergency scheduling ended in 2002, long before the timeframe of the allegations against the Daughtry Family (2015-2020) related to their lawful sale of 1,4 butanediol. The Government argued 1,4 butanediol was a controlled substance analogue to GHB but that is impossible if GHB is not a schedule I or schedule II substance.

Right Price Chemicals (“RPC”) had sought the advice of attorneys before the Government’s raid and those attorneys did not advise RPC it was doing anything illegal when it sold 1,4 butanediol on its website with terms and conditions limiting the sale to laboratory and industrial uses exclusively. These attorneys also joined the defense team which made them unavailable to testify as witnesses in the case under Texas Ethical rules. Rather than testify to the jury about the advice they gave, Galmor defaulted and gave this defense up by failing to file any response preserving the defense.

Jake Daughtry, owner of Right Price Chemicals, LLC, has filed, with the assistance of Jacob Powell, founder of InmateLegal (inmatelegal@gmail.com), a motion to challenge his guilty plea which the Government obtained by leveraging Jake Daughtry’s elderly mother, using fabricated documents during the prosecution, and by exploiting Jake Daughtry’s constitutionally ineffective counsel (Galmor) that recommended the plea rather than defend his client and investigate the law and facts of the case adequately.

The entire Memorandum in Support with Appendix can be downloaded and read here: