If, at the defendant's request, a district judge vacates all of the defendant's concurrent sentences because they are illegal, is the judge obligated to reimpose concurrent terms on resentencing? That is the central question presented in this case, and we answer it in the negative.
In 1983, a jury convicted Garland Claude Cochran of committing four federal narcotics offenses in the Northern District...
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