U.S. v. SPINELLE

No. 93-2481.

41 F.3d 1056 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James SPINELLE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia G. Blake, Kathleen Moro Nesi, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued and briefed), Michael J. Stern, Detroit, MI, for plaintiff-appellant.

Kenneth P. Tableman (argued and briefed), Lansing, MI, for defendant-appellee.

James Spinelle, pro se.

Before: LIVELY, JONES and SILER, Circuit Judges.


NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff United States appeals an order of the district court releasing Defendant James Spinelle after he served an eighteen-month prison sentence and one year of a three-year term of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana. The issue is whether Congress altered the discretionary authority of the district court under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(1) (1988) to terminate supervised release after one year of completion when it enacted...

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