United States v. Shanton Hunter

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Shanton Hunter appeals the district court’s sentence of a 168-month term of imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release. The issue is whether the district court abused its discretion when it imposed the minimum sentence under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“U.S.S.G.” or “Guidelines”) and ordered that the sentence be served consecutively to the unexpired portion of an unrelated state conviction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3584 and U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(c). For reasons stated, we affirm.

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Hunter pled guilty on January 7, 1992, to one count of…