Legal Opinion
United States v. Granderson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 22, 1994No. 92-1662PublishedCited by 302 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This case presents a question of statutory interpretation regarding revocation of a federal sentence of probation. The law at issue provides that if a person serving a sentence of probation possesses illegal drugs, “the court shall revoke the sentence of probation and sentence the defendant to not less than one-third of the original sentence.” 18 U. S. C. § 3565(a). Congress did not further define the critical term “original sentence,” nor are those words, unmodified, used elsewhere in the Federal Criminal Code chapter on sentencing. Embedded in that context, the words “original sentence” in…
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