United States Seventh Circuit

A state drug offense was not relevant to a federal drug offense, but rather was properly considered as a wholly separate conviction, thus the district court did not err in ordering half of defendant's term of imprisonment to run consecutively to his state sentence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2002
• Decided 04/01/2003
• Published 04/01/2003

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Colin S. Bruce (argued), Timothy A. Bass, Office of U.S. Atty., Urbana Div., Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Andrew J. McGowan (argued), Office of Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.