United States Ninth Circuit

A life sentence for methamphetamine manufacture violated Apprendi and was not harmless error where indictment did not allege, and government did not prove, the drug quantity necessary for maximum sentence; no factual evidence supported a leadership role enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2001
• Decided 05/30/2002
• Published 05/30/2002

Judges

• Before CANBY, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William S. Wong, Assistant United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Jeffrey L. Staniels, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellant.