United States v. Paul Vanhoose

OPINION

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

In February 1994, Defendant-Appellant Paul VanHoose (“VanHoose”), having been convicted of a federal drug offense, was sentenced to a prison term to be followed by a term of supervised release. Van-Hoose subsequently violated several supervised-release conditions. The district court revoked the supervised-release term and sentenced VanHoose to the maximum statutorily-authorized prison term to be followed by a new term of supervised release. In doing so, the district court invoked 18 U.S.C. § 3583(h), a provision that was enacted in September 1994.

VanHoose argues…