United States Fifth Circuit

In drug convictions under 21 U.S.C. sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A), the government was not required to prove defendant's mens rea regarding the type and quantity of the controlled substance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2003
• Published 01/27/2003

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH,BARKSDALE and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchel Neurock (argued), Laredo, TX, Paula Camille Offenhauser and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roland E. Dahlin, II, Fed. Pub. Def., Timothy William Crooks, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.