United States Fifth Circuit

Consecutive sentences imposed on defendant for two drug-related offenses are affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as well as the U.S.S.G. by sentencing him to consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences as punishment for failing to cooperate with the government; and 2) imposing consecutive sentences was contrary to the U.S.S.G. and unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/20/2007
• Published 11/20/2007

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY,SMITH and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Alex A. Melendez, El Paso, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.