United States v. John R. Mazak

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1983 Mazak was convicted by a jury of making a false statement in acquiring a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6), and of receiving a firearm illegally in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(h)(1), and was given consecutive three-year prison terms on each charge. He appealed, arguing among other things that consecutive terms were barred by the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. We rejected this as well as his other arguments, and affirmed his conviction and sentence in an unpublished opinion (No. 83-2946, June 18, 1984).…