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063278P.pdf 06/01/2007 United States v. Carlos Whitehead
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-3278
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit
Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Mandatory life sentence
under 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) is not unconstitutional under the
Eighth Amendment; imposition of an enhanced sentence based on prior
convictions does not violate the Sixth Amendment; district court did not
abuse its discretion in denying motion for a continuance to obtain new
counsel; district court's determination that the drug involved was crack is
not erroneous.