Court Opinion

ID: 9482428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:50:09.366914+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:59.415273
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NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the portion of the majority opinion that discusses the failure to file an information under 21 U.S.C. § 851 (1988) and in the remainder of the opinion. I write separately only to note that the majority properly interprets United States v. Williams, 899 F.2d 1526 (6th Cir.1990) as a case of statutory sentencing rather than guideline sentencing. Accordingly, Williams does not stand for the proposition that an information is required in cases of guideline sentencing and, thus, the following cases are incorrect in construing Williams as contrary to their holdings: United States v. Novey, 922 F.2d 624, 627 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2861, 115 L.Ed.2d 1028 (1991); United States v. Marshall, 910 F.2d 1241, 1245 (5th Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 976, 112 L.Ed.2d 1061 (1991); Hansen v. United States Parole Comm’n, 904 F.2d 306, 309 (5th Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 765, 112 L.Ed.2d 784 (1991).