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001539P.pdf   12/15/2000  United States  v.  David Daniel Alaniz
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-1539
   District of North Dakota   
   Criminal case sentencing challenge. 1998 amendment to 
   18 U.S.C. sec. 924(c)(1)(A) does not nullify a consecutive term of 
   imprisonment for a firearm charge whenever the predicate drug 
   crime or crime of violence already carries a greater minimum sentence. 
   District court erred in declining to impose a consecutive five-year 
   firearm sentence, believing it was subsumed by the greater ten-year 
   drug sentence.