United States Fourth Circuit

Sentence for drug and weapons charges is vacated and remanded where: 1) the district court violated Rule 11 by not informing defendant before accepting his guilty pleas that he faced a mandatory fifteen-year minimum sentence; 2) the error was not harmless; and 3) vacating all of defendants guilty pleas is the proper remedy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2008
• Published 04/03/2008

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, TRAXLER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jon Ian Davey, Danville, Virginia, for Appellant.  Jean Barrett Hudson, Office of the United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee.  John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Edward A. Lustig, Office of the United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.