United States v. Gonzales

We are asked to decide whether a federal court may direct that a prison sentence under 18 U.- S. C. § 924(c) run concurrently with a state-imposed sentence, even though § 924(c) *3provides that a sentence imposed under that statute “shall [not] . . . run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment.” We hold that it may not.

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Respondents were arrested in a drug sting operation during which two of them pulled guns on undercover police officers. All three were convicted in New Mexico courts on charges arising from the holdup. The state courts sentenced them to prison terms ranging from 13 to…