United States v. Lynch

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Frank Alexander Lynch pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). As an armed career criminal, Lynch was subject to a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). The district court sentenced Lynch to a 210-month term of imprisonment and ordered the prison term to run consecutively to the state sentence that Lynch was serving based on the same course of conduct. Lynch argues that the district court erred in failing to apply U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b), which required a federal sentence to run…