United States Ninth Circuit

The procedural requirement of filing an information to seek sentencing enhancements for prior drug convictions, under 18 USC 851(a), is not jurisdictional and can be waived.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/18/2002
• Decided 09/28/2001
• Published 09/28/2001

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, TROTT, RYMER, THOMAS, GOULD, PAEZ, BERZON, TALLMAN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce L. Brown, Anchorage, AK, argued for the defendant-appellant., Stephen Cooper, Assistant United States Attorney, Fairbanks, AK, argued for the plaintiff-appellee.  Timothy M. Burgess, United States Attorney, Anchorage, AK, assisted on the brief.