Court Opinion

ID: 9495898
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:12:56.655016+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:57:15.454382
License: Public Domain

MOORE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result and the reasoning of all parts of the lead opinion other than Part III.C.2. As to Part III.C.2., I concur *435in the result and in the reasoning to the extent that it relies on the doctrine of harmless error to uphold the defendant’s conviction and sentence. Indeed, that section of the opinion simply holds that if there were error, “[i]t is clear that Defendant suffered no adverse consequence whatsoever as a result of the District Court’s determination that drug quantity was something other than an element of the charged offenses.” (Lead Op. at 431) I refrain from joining in the remaining discussion within Part III.C.2. because it is unnecessary to the result reached, and because I do not share the lead opinion’s musings regarding whether drug quantity is an element of the offense.