United States Second Circuit

The failure either to charge drug type and quantity in the indictment or to submit the question of drug type and quantity to the jury is subject to plain error review, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b), when the defendant raised no objection before the District Court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/27/2001
• Decided 12/12/2001
• Published 12/13/2001

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge, KEARSE, JACOBS, LEVAL, CALABRESI, CABRANES, F.I. PARKER, STRAUB, POOLER, SACK, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Colleen P. Cassidy, Leonard F. Joy, Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division, New York, NY;  Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Public Defender, District of Connecticut;  William G. Clauss, Federal Public Defender, Western District of New York;  Alexander Bunin, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of New York and Vermont, for Amicus Curiae Federal Public Defenders., John P. Cooney, Jr., Joseph F. Warganz, Jr., Lorilee A. Vaughan, Jill S. Mahonchak, Davis Polk & Wardwell;  Thomas E. Engel, Engel & McCarney;  Mark F. Pomerantz, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Federal Bar Council., Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA;  Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr., Philadelphia, PA;  Joshua L. Dratel, New York, NY;  Mary Price, FAMM Foundation, Washington, DC;  Roger L. Stavis, Stavis & Kornfeld, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York Criminal Bar Association, and Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation., John K. Carroll, Laura M. Bergamini, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP;  Richard A. Greenberg, Karl E. Pflanz, Newman & Greenberg;  Victor J. Rocco, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae New York Council of Defense Lawyers., Roy S. Ward, Philip Russell, P.C., Greenwich, CT;  Conrad Seifert, Seifert & Hogan, Old Lyme, CT, for Amicus Curiae The Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael R. Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice (Barbara D. Underwood, Office of the Solicitor General, Department of Justice;  Barbara D. Cottrell, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of New York;  Christine H. Chung, Baruch Weiss, Assistant United States Attorneys, Southern District of New York;  Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York;  Nina Goodman, United States Department of Justice;  Joseph A. Pavone, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York;  Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York;  Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York;  Kathleen Mehltretter, United States Attorney, Western District of New York;  John A. Danaher III, United States Attorney, District of Connecticut;  David V. Kirby, United States Attorney, District of Vermont, on the brief), for Appellee., L. John Van Norden, Schenectady, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.