Legal Opinion

United States v. Medina-Mora

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided August 5, 2015No. Nos. 14-1243, 14-1420PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

When the district court sentenced defendant Jose Miguel Medina-Mora in 2009 for unlawful reentry by an alien, see 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) & (b)(2), he was serving undischarged terms in an Illinois state prison on a drug charge and a weapons charge. When the district court pronounced sentence orally in open court, the judge said that Medina-Mora was “committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a concurrent term of 77 months on Count One.” When the court issued' its written judgment, however, the court said nothing about a “concurrent” sentence. The…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. United States v. Paul C. "Paulie" VillanoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1987
  2. United States v. Frank J. Bonanno and Lawrence J. GoldsteinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
  3. United States v. Fayez AlburayCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
  4. United States v. LoveCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2010
  5. United States v. Justin CephusCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2012

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