United States Fourth Circuit

Sentence for distribution of crack cocaine is affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the court should not have classified him as a career offender; 2) the classification violated his Sixth Amendment rights; and 3) the sentence violated Booker principles.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2006
• Published 05/05/2006

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Derrick Ward Lefler, Gibson, Lefler & Associates, Princeton, West Virginia, for Appellant.  John Lanier File, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Beckley, West Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Kasey Warner, United States Attorney, Beckley, West Virginia, for Appellee.