United States v. Hilda Escobar De Bright

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1984-03-29

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WALLACE, Circuit Judge: We have taken this case en banc because of a conflict among our decisions in the application of the concurrent sentence doctrine. In doing so, we considered the propriety of using the doctrine as a discretionary way to avoid reviewing criminal convictions. However, the doctrine’s disadvantages outweigh its…

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