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UNITED STATES v. DE BRIGHT

No. 81-1648.

730 F.2d 1255 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Hilda Escobar DE BRIGHT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel G. Knauss, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tucson, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert Murray, Tucson, Ariz., for defendant-appellant.

Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, GOODWIN, WALLACE, ANDERSON, HUG, SKOPIL, FLETCHER, PREGERSON, FERGUSON, NELSON, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.

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 advantages. Therefore, we reject its application in this and future cases.

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DeBright was convicted of conspiring to import...

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