United States v. Pablo Stallings

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Pablo Stallings was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base. The government filed an information seeking to enhance Stallings’s sentence to life imprisonment. The district court, relying upon the convictions set out in the notice, imposed the enhancement and sentenced Stallings to life imprisonment. Stallings now appeals his conviction and sentence. We affirm the conviction but reverse and remand the sentence imposed.

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Stallings challenges his enhanced sentence contending the procedure and notice were defective and the two prior felony…