United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's crack cocaine distribution sentence is affirmed where the question of what constitutes a "prior conviction" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(A) was a matter of federal, not state, law, and a suspended imposition of sentence qualified as such a prior conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2010
• Published 02/01/2010

Judges

• Before GRUENDER and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges, and JARVEY,District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. Craddock Forrest City, AR, pro se., Travis D. Poindexter, Assistant, Federal Public Defender's Office, Kansas City, MO, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Catherine A. Connelly, U.S. Attorney's Office, Kansas City, MO, for Appellee.