Legal Opinion
United States v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 21, 2000No. 98-1696PublishedCited by 511 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
An offender had been serving time in federal prison for multiple felonies when two of his convictions were declared invalid. As a result, he had served too much prison time and was at once set free, but a term of supervised release was yet to be served on the remaining convictions. The question becomes whether the excess prison time should be credited to the supervised release term, reducing its length. Bound by the text of the controlling statute, 18 U. S. C. § 3624(e), we hold that the supervised release term remains unaltered.
Respondent Roy Lee Johnson was convicted in 1990 on two counts…
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- United States v. BlakeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
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