Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan A. Flores
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 8, 1980No. 79-2936PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Circuit Judge.
Flores was convicted of a drug offense and on February 12,1976, was sentenced to three concurrent ten-year sentences with five years special parole. Later he pleaded guilty to another drug offense and on December 13,1976, was sentenced to ten years in prison but with five years special parole “to run concurrently with the sentence imposed in [the first case].”
The sentences could not be concurrent in the sense of having the same starting date because a federal sentence cannot commence prior to the date it is pronounced, even if made concurrent with a sentence already…
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