Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric L. Swan
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 2, 2002No. 01-1598PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
RENDELL, Circuit Judge.
Defendant, Eric Lish Swan, appeals his sentence for an offense committed while on supervised release. The District Court believed that the Sentencing Guidelines mandated that it be served consecutively to the previously imposed sentence for violation of supervised release. The main issue on appeal is whether § 5G1.3(c) of the Sentencing Guidelines and the accompanying Application Note 6 required the District Court to impose a consecutive sentence in these circumstances. This issue is the subject of a split in the courts of appeals and is one of first…
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