Fourth Circuit· 6/21/1990

United States v. Jerome T. Bledsoe

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898 F.2d 430
1990 WL 26468

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holding that deleting word “public” from an indictment charging defendant with selling drugs within 1000 feet of a “public” secondary school was not an impermissible amendment when statute prohibited drug selling within 1000 feet of any secondary school
allowing amendment of indictment where it does not change essential or material element of charge so as to cause prejudice to the defendant
changes that do not alter an essential element to the prejudice of a defendant may be corrected by amendment
“Courts following the modern rule allow an amendment if it ‘is not substantial, it is sufficiently definite and certain, the accused is not taken by surprise, and any evidence the defendant had before the amendment would be equally available to him after the amendment.’”

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Judges: Widener, Wilkinson, Spencer, Eastern, Virginia

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