Boykins v. United States

Appellant Alonzo T. Boykins contends that he received an illegal sentence following his plea of guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of former D.C.Code § 33 — 541(a)(1). 1 The trial court imposed a sentence of twenty-seven years of imprisonment with five years of supervised release, and suspended all but three months of incarceration and two years of supervised release. The court chose not to impose a period of probation in connection with the suspended portion of Boykins’s prison term, based on its view that the United States Parole Commission would be…