United States v. Cotton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “defects in an indictment do not deprive a court of its power to adjudicate a case.”
• holding that sentencing in excess of a statutory maximum did not deprive the sentencing court of jurisdiction
• holding that sentencing in excess of a statutory maximum did not deprive the sentencing court of jurisdiction
• holding that Apprendi error did not “seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings”
• holding that defects in an indictment do not deprive a court or a petit jury of jurisdiction to ratify the indictment
• holding that a defendant’s failure to object to Apprendi error at trial requires plain error review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).