United States v. Royan McLymont

Appellant Royan McLymont entered a guilty plea to carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court sentenced McLymont to sixty months’ imprisonment. The issue on appeal is whether the district court erred when it ordered Appellant’s sentence for carrying and using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime to run consecutively to his undischarged state sentences. Appellant’s position is that USSG § 5G1.3(b) requires a concurrent sentence in this case because Appellant was prosecuted in federal and state court for the…