U.S. v. Gonzales, No. 95-1605 (U.S. Supreme Court) (520 U.S. 1; 117 S.Ct. 1032) (March 3, 1997) (Justice O'Connor)

Loaded on Nov. 29, 1999

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences.

In this case the defendants were arrested in a drug-sting operation during which two of them pulled guns on undercover agents. They were convicted in a New Mexico State court and were sentenced. After they began serving their state sentence, they were convicted in Fderal court of drug offenses and ...

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