Dickerson, No. 06-2471 "Conviction and life sentence for drug and weapons offenses are affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the specific drug quantities found in the current and previous convictions cannot be utilized for sentencing since the trial judge did not expressly instruct the jury that its findings of drug quantities had to be beyond a reasonable doubt; 2) there was error in the sentencing proceedings concerning defendant's prior convictions because he was… [read post]