United States v. Ramon Ochoa

Opinion by Judge RAWLINSON; Dissent by Chief District Judge NAVARRO.

OPINION

RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Ramon Ochoa (Ochoa) challenges the two-year sentence imposed following violations of his supervised release conditions. Ochoa specifically contends that the district court erred in increasing his sentence to the two-year statutory maximum based on Ochoa’s apparently disrespectful conduct after the district. court imposed a sentence of twelve months and a day. Ochoa maintains that the district court lacked jurisdiction to increase *455an already imposed sentence.1 We do not agree.

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