United States Fourth Circuit

21 U.S.C.A. section 841(b)(1)(D) provides the applicable statutory maximum for marijuana violations where the quantity of the drug is undetermined. Dismissal of defendant's conviction under 18 U.S.C.A. - 924(c) is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2002
• Decided 02/11/2003
• Published 02/11/2003

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HENRY M. HERLONG, JR., United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Vincent L. Gambale, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.   John Bertram Mann, Levit, Mann & Halligan, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia;  Laura C. Marshall, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.