United States v. Ramse Thomas

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• ruling that Apprendi is applicable only when a judicial determination enhances a sentence above the statutory maximum that would have controlled absent such a determination
• noting that “lack of congruence” between unquantified drug offense proved and quantified drug offense on which defendant was sentenced might properly be analogized to a constructive amendment error
• applying only plain error review to Apprendi issues when they were not raised in the district court prior to that decision
• applying only plain error review to Apprendi issues when they were not raised in the district court prior to that decision
• distinguishing Thomas’s case from those of defendants who “stipulate or alloeute to the drug quantity used the enhance ... sentence”
• explaining appropriateness of this remedy where error is either in conviction or in sentence

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