Legal Opinion
United States v. Santiago-Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 5, 2010No. 08-1499PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Rolando Santiago-Rivera challenges as unreasonable the sentence imposed upon him in connection with the revocation of a term of supervised release. The circumstances of this case are unusual and the question presented- — -which involves the extent to which a federal judge may shape a sentence for a violation of supervised release to affect an unrelated state sentence — is one of first impression. After careful consideration of this conundrum, we conclude that the district court committed a procedural error by relying upon an impermissible factor in…
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- United States v. Synina Lavel ClarkCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2006
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