United States Fifth Circuit

U.S.S.G. section 5G1.2(d) requires that the district court impose consecutive sentences to equal the "total punishment" prescribed by the guidelines, when the maximum sentence required by the substantive criminal statute falls short of the minimum sentence required by the applicable Sentencing Guideline range.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/21/2003
• Published 02/21/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adrienne Urrutia, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.