Opinion ID: 728000
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Aggregation of Sentences

Text: 19 Leaphart asked the Magistrate Judge to affirm that his sentence for failure to appear should be aggregated with his previous sentence for bank theft. Aggregating the two sentences would enable Leaphart to earn credit toward service of his sentence for satisfactory behavior pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3624, which limits eligibility for such credit to inmates serving terms of imprisonment exceeding one year. The Magistrate Judge correctly declined Leaphart's request because he is not subject to multiple terms of imprisonment that can be aggregated. 2 20 Aggregation of sentences is permitted only if multiple terms of imprisonment are imposed on a defendant at the same time or if a term of imprisonment is imposed on a defendant who is already subject to an undischarged term of imprisonment. See 18 U.S.C. § 3584(a). When Leaphart was given his sentence of twelve months' imprisonment on the failure to appear conviction, he had already completed serving his sentence of 90 days' imprisonment on the bank theft conviction. He remained incarcerated after completing that sentence only because he was detained pending resolution of his bail-jumping case. Because the first sentence expired before the second sentence was imposed, the two sentences cannot be aggregated. See Abrahams v. Rodgers, 691 F.2d 87, 88 (2d Cir.1982) (aggregation cannot occur retroactively by a sentence subsequently imposed). 3