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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.