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Supreme Court Rules Federal Judge May Make Sentence Consecutive to Future State Sentence

Loaded on Sept. 8, 2016

Filed under: Sentencing, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Location: United States of America.

On March 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal judge may impose a sentence that is consecutive to an anticipated state sentence.

Monroe Ace Setser was on probation for a Texas drug charge when he was arrested in Texas for the new drug charge of possession with ...

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