United States v. George E. McAfee

I

George E. McAfee contends that a district court order ruling violates the double jeopardy clause. The order conformed an earlier entered sentence for escape to the court’s original intent that it run consecutively with rather than concurrently to the sentence McAfee was serving at the time of his escape.

II

During service of a sentence imposed in the Western District of Texas, McAfee was placed in a San Antonio halfway house in preparation for his release on parole. McAfee left the house on October 16, 1986 and did not return. After his arrest in January of 1987, McAfee pled guilty to a flight…