United States v. Julius Cecil Olson

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a court without a § 851(a) information “can no more enhance the sentence than it could impose imprisonment under a statute that only prescribes a fine”
• “ ‘[A] litigant’s failure to clear a jurisdictional hurdle can never be “harmless” or waived by a court.’ ”
• “The government’s concession might well be the end of this case, but since the district court did not accept the government’s concession filed with it and addressed the matter at length, we shall do so also.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).