United States v. Danny Hodges

A jury convicted defendant Danny Hodges on two counts of knowingly and intentionally distributing marijuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The trial court sentenced him to four years’ confinement on Count I, with a special parole term of two years, and to three years’ probation on Count II, to run consecutively with the sentence in Count I. Hodges appealed. This Court, in United States v. Hodges, 5 Cir., 1977, 547 F.2d 951, remanded the case to the district court for resentencing, because the lower court failed to comply with Fed. R.Crim.P. 32(c)(3)(A) in not permitting defense…