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- Title: Romandine V. United States
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 14, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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Ronald Romandine is a prisoner of Wisconsin, serving time for racketeering and theft offenses. He also has a federal conviction for credit card fraud. 18 U.S.C. sec.1029(a)(2). The state and federal offenses are unrelated. Romandine's federal sentence, imposed in January 1994, will commence after his state sentence ends--or so the sentencing judge declared. But Romandine contends in this proceeding under 28 U.S.C. sec.2255 that a federal judge lacks authority to make a sentence consecutive to a state sentence that is not in existence when the federal sentence is imposed. His petition backfired: the district court increased Romandine's sentence by five months. Romandine's appeal protests both the original sentence and the increase. The chronology is sufficiently complex and important that we set out the sequence.