United States Fifth Circuit

Although an indictment failed to allege drug quantity, and a resulting sentence exceeded the "core" maximum, resentencing is not necessary under a plain error standard where overwhelming evidence linked defendant and co-conspirators to large quantities of crack cocaine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/26/2002
• Published 08/26/2002

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, JONES and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cheri Lynn Duncan, Houston, TX, for Randle.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alice Ann Burns (argued), Paula Camille Offenhauser and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, Michael A. Rotker, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div. App. Section, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.