United States v. Gloria Rodriguez, A/K/A "Carmen Santiago"

PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Morris E. Lasker, Judge, under which defendants were sentenced, inter alia, to two years probation under 18 U.S.C. § 3147. The government’s appeal challenges this sentence contending that under § 3147 a two-year minimum term of imprisonment was mandated and that the district court erred in imposing a term of probation.

The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 provides the context for interpreting the Congressional intent embodied in the…