United States Fourth Circuit

Cocaine convictions are affirmed as the court did not err in determining the quantity of drugs attributable to defendant, and a district judge is not required to review de novo the Rule 11 proceedings conducted by a magistrate judge, absent a defendant's request.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2003
• Decided 09/25/2003
• Published 09/25/2003

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Nathan Boorda, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Rose Mary Parham, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.