United States Seventh Circuit

In determining whether defendant is a career offender, a prior state court conviction may count as a separate prior felony conviction even if defendant acknowledged it in a plea agreement in a federal proceeding and the sentences for the two crimes ran concurrently.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/08/2001
• Published 11/08/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Griffin (argued), Department of Justice, Chicago Strike Force, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee., Robert D. Seeder (argued), Terence MacCarthy, Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.