United States v. Tony McCullough

POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Tony R. McCullough pleaded guilty to theft of money from a bank and was sentenced to five years probation, later modified to three years probation. He violated a condition of his probation, causing it to be revoked, and McCullough was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, followed by two years supervised release. McCullough timely appealed this sentence.

McCullough maintains on appeal that the district court erred by imposing a term of supervised release following the period of imprisonment. He contends that a sentence of supervised release is not available under…