Legal Opinion
United States v. William Cortes-Claudio
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 2, 2002No. 01-2113PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises, inter alia, the question of which statutory provision governs the district court’s imposition of a term of supervised release upon a drug offender. A statute pertaining to federal crimes in general provides that for Class A and Class B felonies, the maximum supervised release term is five years. 18 U.S.C. § 3588(b)(2000). Another statute, however, making criminal the drug offenses under which this defendant was sentenced, provides for somewhat different terms of supervised release and, in the defendant’s circumstances, mandates a…
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