Legal Opinion
United States v. James Robert Rice
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 26, 1995No. 18-13536PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we address for the first time in our circuit whether in assessing propriety of sentence enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), a sentencing court may consider the relationship between previ- . ous convictions to ascertain if they constitute a single criminal episode and thus should be counted only as one prior conviction. The district court determined that enhancement was appropriate because the previous convictions were sufficiently distinct in time to be counted separately toward the two prior convictions necessary to enhance an offender’s sentence…
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