Legal Opinion
United States v. Villegas-Miranda
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 2009No. 08-2308PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Octavio Villegas-Miranda believes that the government intentionally delayed charging him with illegal reentry, a federal crime, while he was in state custody on a domestic battery charge. This delay, he claims, was designed to deprive him of the opportunity to serve his federal sentence concurrent with the remainder of his state sentence.
At sentencing, he asked the district court to lower the federal sentence that it intended to impose so that he could receive credit for the lost opportunity to serve it concurrently with the end of his state sentence. In support of…
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