United States v. Paul Long

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Paul Long divulged his role in several Tazewell County, Illinois burglaries in exchange for the County’s promise that it would do no more than impose a sentence equal and concurrent to that received for several neighboring Fulton County burglaries also committed by Long. The United States, which had no role whatsoever in Long’s Tazewell or Fulton County state court prosecutions, later charged him with violating a federal statute prohibiting possession of a weapon by a career criminal, offering as part of its proof Long’s Taze-well County disclosure, which…