Legal Opinion
United States v. Garland Claude Cochran
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 1989No. 88-8708PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Circuit Judge:
If, at the defendant’s request, a district judge vacates all of the defendant’s concurrent sentences because they are illegal, is the judge obligated to reimpose concurrent terms on resentencing? That is the central question presented in this case, and we answer it in the negative.
In 1983, a jury convicted Garland Claude Cochran of committing four federal narcotics offenses in the Northern District of Georgia. 1 Ordinarily, the maximum penalty for these offenses is fifteen years incarceration, but because of a prior marijuana conviction, the district court enhanced…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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