United States v. Sylvester Anthony Stewart

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge HAMILTON joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Sylvester Stewart was sentenced to 228 months imprisonment for interstate kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a). The district court imposed that sentence to run consecutively to a state prison term that Stewart was then serving for two prior rape convictions. Stewart now argues that because the district court declined to apply the precise methodology set forth in the commentary of § 5G1.3(c) of the Sentencing Guidelines, which governs…