United States v. Obey, No. 14-4585 (4th Cir. 2015)
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Defendant pled guilty to distribution of cocaine and aiding and abetting in its distribution, and was sentenced to 240 months' imprisonment. The court concluded that the government did not breach the plea agreement where the Government is not obligated to explain its reasons for making a particular sentencing recommendation unless it agrees to do so in the plea
agreement and where the prosecutor neither criticized the terms of the agreement nor expressed doubt about the legality or propriety of the recommended sentence. Further, the district court did not plainly err in ordering that defendant's sentence run consecutively to any future "State or Federal sentence." Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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