U.S. v. Yu, No. 01-1222 (2nd Cir.) (285 F.3d 192) (March 25, 2002) (Judge Dennis G. Jacobs)
Here the Court vacated a sentence after holding it was error, under Apprendi, for the district court to permit defendant to plead guilty to quantity-specific drug charges while refusing to allocute to quantity and then set the quantity itself.
The defendant in this case, Kwok Ching Yu, was already in …
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