Legal Opinion
United States v. James Spinelle
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 7, 1994No. 93-2481PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff United States appeals an order of the district court releasing Defendant James Spinelle after he served an eighteen-month prison sentence and one year of a three-year term of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana. The issue is whether Congress altered the discretionary authority of the district court under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(1) (1988) to terminate supervised release after one year of completion when it enacted 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) (1988), which required the court to impose a three-year minimum term of supervised release at sentencing…
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