Legal Opinion
Setser v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 28, 2012No. 10-7387PublishedCited by 339 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
We consider whether a district court, in sentencing a defendant for a federal offense, has authority to order that the federal sentence be consecutive to an anticipated state sentence that has not yet been imposed.
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When officers of the Lubbock Police Department arrested petitioner Monroe Setser for possessing methamphetamine, he was already serving a 5-year term of probation imposed by a.Texas court for another drug offense. Setser was indicted in state court for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and the State also moved to revoke his term of probation. As often…
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