United States v. James Douglas Smith, United States of America v. James Douglas Smith, United States of America v. James Douglas Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding “when [federal] sentences are imposed at different times, § 3584 only authorizes a court to determine whether a sentence should be consecutive or concurrent if the defendant is already subject to an undischarged term of imprisonment.”
• “The plain language of [§ 3584(a)] does not grant a district court authority to order that its sentence run consecutively to a future sentence.”
• \The plain language of [ § 3584(a) ] does not grant a district court authority to order that its sentence run consecutively to a future sentence.\
• “The plain language of [§ 3584(a)] does not grant a district court authority to order that its sentence run consecutively to a future sentence.”
• disagree, but applying its rule to a yet-to-be-imposed federal sentence

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