United States v. Sills

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

AVERN COHN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This is a criminal case. Defendant Robert Sills (Sills) is one of 25 defendants indicted for Conspiracy to Distribute 5 Kilograms or More of Cocaine. Sills was found guilty after a five-day trial. Prior to trial, the government filed a 21 U.S.C. § 851 Information seeking to enhance Sills’ sentence on the basis of a prior felony drug conviction. Sills challenges government’s reliance on the Information on grounds that (1) the government’s inclusion of the wrong case number in the original Information was not a clerical error, (2)…