United States v. Garland Claude Cochran

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• concurrent sentences improperly enhanced to 30 years originally, replaced on remand with unenhanced concurrent and consecutive sentences totaling 25 years
• “the double jeopardy inquiry turns on the extent and legitimacy of a defendant’s ‘expectation of finality in the original sentence’” (citations omitted)
• “the Double Jeopardy Clause, which guards against Government oppression, does not relieve a defendant from the consequences of his voluntary choice[]” (citations omitted)

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