Legal Opinion
Ronald Romandine v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 2000No. 99-1940PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Romandine is a prisoner of Wisconsin, serving time for racketeering and theft offenses. He also has a federal conviction for credit card fraud. 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2). The state and federal offenses are unrelated. Romandine’s federal sentence, imposed in January 1994, will commence after his state sentence ends— or so the sentencing judge declared. But Romandine contends in this proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 that a federal judge lacks authority to make a sentence consecutive to a state -sentence that is not in existence when the federal sentence is…
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