United States Ninth Circuit

Errors based on government's failure to allege a drug quantity to support a sentence, and court's failure to: 1) inform defendant that the government would be required to prove that quantity; and, 2) elicit an admission of quantity in accepting a guilty plea, were not plain error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2002
• Published 08/08/2002

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge., Before ALARCÓN, TASHIMA, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patience Milrod, Law Office of Patience Milrod, Fresno, CA, for the defendant-appellant., William L. Shipley, Assistant United States Attorney, Fresno, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.