United States v. Smith

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Anthony Smith (“Smith”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.) sentencing him to 32 months’ imprisonment for violating his supervised release pursuant to the pre-1994 version — the version in effect at the time the defendant committed the original offense — of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g), which governs the penalties for violating the terms of supervised release by possessing a controlled substance. We hold that the date on which the original offense was committed, not the date on which…