United States Second Circuit

Prior felony drug convictions triggering a mandatory minimum sentence of lifetime imprisonment under 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(A) need not be charged in the indictment or proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/03/2005
• Published 11/03/2005

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, SOTOMAYOR, WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Earle Giovanniello (Jason P. Gladstone, Westport, CT, on the brief), New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Daniel Herredia., Jose M. Rojas, Shipman & Goodwin, LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Makene Jacobs., Alex Hernandez, Assistant United States Attorney (Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Alina Reynolds, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief, Sandra S. Glover, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Bridgeport, CT, for Appellee.