United States v. Gonzales (1996)

Docket
95-1605
Decided
1996-01-01

Summary

Question: Can the federal mandatory five-year prison term for carrying a gun while committing a crime be served concurrently with a separate state sentence? Conclusion: No. In a 7-to-2 decision delivered by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the Court announced "[t]he plain language of (the law) forbids a district court to direct that a term of imprisonment under the statute run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment, whether state or federal."

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