U.S. v. CORTES-CLAUDIO

No. 01-2113.

312 F.3d 17 (2002)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. William CORTES-CLAUDIO, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 2, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael F. Castro-Lang for appellant.

Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, were on brief for the United States.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises, inter alia, the question of which statutory provision governs the district court's imposition of a term of supervised release upon a drug offender. A statute pertaining to federal crimes in general provides that for Class A and Class B felonies, the maximum supervised release term is five years. 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(2000). Another statute, however, making criminal the drug offenses under...

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