United States v. Thomas

MCKINLEY, District Judge.

The defendant, Dorminic Thomas, appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress cocaine seized at the scene of his arrest, after entering a conditional guilty plea to possession with the intent to distribute in excess of fifty grams of cocaine base. Thomas also appeals his sentence as a career offender, claiming that he should not have been sentenced under the career offender provisions of § 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, as this required findings by the sentencing court that were not submitted to a jury and proved beyond a…