United States v. Spraglin

Lynn Levert Spraglin appeals the revocation of his supervised release in each of his underlying federal convictions. He avers that the district court abused its discretion in revoking his supervised release based on evidence of his state murder conviction which is still pending on appeal at the time that supervision was revoked.

We review the decision to revoke supervised release under an abuse of discretion standard. 1 In order to revoke a term of supervised release, a court must find by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant violated a condition of his release. 2 In United States…