United States v. Joseph Merlino

OPINION OF THE COURT

VANASKIE, Circuit Judge.

At issue on this appeal is whether a District Court has jurisdiction to revoke supervised release when neither an arrest warrant nor a summons concerning an alleged violation of supervised release was *81issued before the term of supervised release expired. We hold that 18 U.S.C. § 3583® is a jurisdictional statute requiring that a warrant or summons must issue before the expiration of supervised release in order for a District Court to conduct revocation proceedings. Because the summons in this matter was issued after the termination of supervised…