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182040P.pdf 07/19/2019 United States v. Kendrick Moody
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2040
and No: 18-2041
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Kelly and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court erred in determining it
lacked authority to make concurrent defendant's two sentences for
possessing a prohibited object in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec.
1791(a)(2); the statute in question requires the court to make any
sentence for violation of the statute consecutive to the time being served
when the offense was committed, but it does not deprive the court of
authority to make the sentences for two violations of the statute
concurrent; the district court's mistaken belief to the contrary
constituted a significant procedural error which was not harmless, and the
case is reversed and remanded for resentencing.