United States v. Johnnie Lee Hawkins

Defendant Johnnie Lee Hawkins was charged with and convicted of five counts of possessing government checks stolen from the mails (18 U.S.C. § 1708) 1 and five counts of uttering the same checks (18 U.S.C. § 495). 2 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced Hawkins to two years on each of the five possession counts and three years on each of the uttering counts, the sentences to run consecutively. Hawkins appeals. We affirm in part and reverse, in part.

Hawkins contends initially that the government should be precluded from prosecuting him both for…