United States Eighth Circuit

A plea to the charge of drug trafficking may be knowing and intelligent, even if the judge did not mention drug quantity as an element of the offense, where the indictment and the plea colloquy echa set forth a quantity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2001
• Published 10/31/2001

Judges

• HANSEN, Circuit Judge., BEFORE:  McMILLIAN, BEAM, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Leonard Lane, argued, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Louis Murphy, argued, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellee.