Legal Opinion
United States v. Estelle Rogers
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 26, 1990No. 89-5029PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
This case presents the question whether the district court retains discretion to impose a concurrent sentence on an offender who commits the offense while serving an unexpired sentence for an unrelated offense. The district court ruled that it was without discretion under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) and ordered that Estelle Rogers’ sentence run consecutively to an earlier, unexpired federal sentence. We believe the district court erred in failing to recognize that it had discretion to depart from the guidelines and sentence either concurrently or…
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