United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's sentence is vacated, where the district court did not indicate that it was departing from the guidelines, or indicate reasons for such a departure, in imposing a federal sentence to run consecutive to a state sentence under U.S.S.G. section 5G1.3(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2003
• Published 01/27/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, JONES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Denise B. Williams, Lubbock, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Sherylynn Ann Kime-Goodwin, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Lubbock, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.