222158P.pdf   06/26/2023  United States  v.  Anthony Jones, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-2158
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Shepherd and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Violations of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 924(c) and 924(j) 
   are separate offenses, and the district court has the discretion to impose 
   consecutive sentences on the two counts; while the district court erred in 
   determining the imposition of consecutive sentences was mandatory - see 
   U.S. v. Lora, 599 U.S.___ (June 16, 2023) - the error was harmless where 
   the court stated that if the matter was subject to the court's discretion, 
   it would exercise its authority to run the sentences consecutively because 
   of the facts of the case; the within-guidelines range sentence imposed in 
   the case was not substantively unreasonable.