United States v. Pierre Watson

RILEY, Chief Judge.

When Pierre Watson was sentenced for running away from a halfway house where he was serving federal time, see 18 U.S.C. § 751(a), he was also facing federal charges in a separate case based on allegations of fraud and identity theft. The district court 1 sentenced Watson to a year and a half in prison for the escape — the middle of the uncontested advisory range under the United States Sentencing Guidelines — and specified that the sentence “shall run consecutively to any sentence that may be imposed if [Watson] should be convicted in the pending [fraud] case.” Watson did…