United States Second Circuit

No plain error occurred under Apprendi by court's misstatement in a plea proceeding as to the location and weight of the burden of proof on a factual issue where defendant admitted to the truth of the pertinent facts, and the record as a whole casts no doubt on the accuracy of that admission.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2002
• Published 04/26/2002

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge., Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard R. Brown,Brown, Paindiris & Scott, LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendant Appellant., Michael J. Gustafson, Assistant United States Attorney, Hartford, CT, (Stephen C. Robinson, United States Attorney, of counsel), for Appellee.