United States v. Lacy

PETERSON, District Judge.

Harold Lacy pleaded guilty to a federal charge of heroin distribution. The district court sentenced Lacy to 168 months of incarceration, consecutive to any sentence he might receive on state-court charges that were pending at the time of his federal sentencing. Lacy ultimately received a lengthy sentence on the state charges, and he now appeals the federal court’s imposition of a consecutive sentence as an abuse of discretion. But Lacy waived his right to appeal any aspect of his sentence, and thus we must dismiss Lacy’s appeal, despite our reservations about the way…