United States Second Circuit

Defendant's guilty plea was inadequate to support conviction on an aggravated drug charge where he had been misinformed as to his right to have the statutory drug quantity proved to a jury rather than the court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/22/2005
• Published 08/22/2005

Judges

• RAGGI, Circuit Judge., Before:  SACK, SOTOMAYOR, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Tracy W. Young (Lisa Scolari, on the brief), New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant., Roberto Finzi, Assistant United States Attorney (Neil M. Barofsky, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Appellee.