Legal Opinion
United States v. Andre C. Joseph
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 1995No. 94-1668PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
André Joseph pleaded guilty to bank robbery and was sentenced to 95 months in prison. The appeal argues that two of his previous sentences should not have been counted separately; if this is right, the sentence he received for the bank robbery was too long.
The federal sentencing guidelines require, for purposes of calculating a defendant’s criminal history, that previous sentences be counted as separate sentences if they are imposed in “unrelated eases,” but as one sentence (the sum of the separate sentences if they are consecutive, the longest if they are concurrent) if…
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