United States Fifth Circuit

No Apprendi violation in court's application of U.S.S.G. section 2D1.1(c)(1) to determine a base offense level where appellant was not sentenced in excess of twenty years under 21 U.S.C. section 841(b) for drug conviction; imposition of consecutive sentence did not violate Apprendi.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA, BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John R. Hailman, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Jim Ming Greenlee, Asst. U.S. Atty., Robert Henry Norman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Christopher Raymond Green (argued), University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Philosophy, Notre Dame, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.