United States Fourth Circuit

After waiver of jury trial, conviction by court of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, distribution of crack cocaine, and use of a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in finding that defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to trial by jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2008
• Published 02/04/2008

Judges

• Before KING and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and Samuel G. WILSON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Edwin Walker, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.  Richard Daniel Cooke, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia;  Peter S. Duffey, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.