U.S. v. Spiers, No. 95-5335 (3rd Cir.) (82 F.3d 1274) (May 2, 1996) (Judge Timothy K. Lewis)
Loaded on June 1, 1996
published in Punch and Jurists
June 10, 1996
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Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences.
The district court in this case ordered the defendant to serve a 110-month sentence to run consecutively for a state sentence and the defendant appealed arguing that the new sentence should have been imposed to run concurrently with the existing state sentence. On appeal, the sentence was affirmed; and …
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