United States Tenth Circuit

A mandatory life sentence imposed for a drug trafficking conviction is affirmed over a claim that the prosecutor negated previous proper notice of a sentence enhancement when the prosecutor mistakenly indicated during a pretrial hearing that defendant was instead subject to only a statutory mandatory minimum twenty-year sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2007
• Published 06/20/2007

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, EBEL and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender and Vicki Mandell-King, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellant Carlos Balderama-Iribe., Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, and Elizabethanne C. Stevens, Assistant United States Attorney, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee United States of America.