United States Ninth Circuit

Under 18 USC 924 (c)(1), a court must inform defendant that he was carrying a firearm and the firearm was carried "in relation to" the drug trafficking to accept a valid guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2000
• Published 12/08/2000

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, BEEZER, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bryan Norcross, Lincoln, Montana, for the defendant-appellant., C. Ed Laws, Assistant United States Attorney, Billings, Montana, for the plaintiff-appellee.