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- Title: United States V. Spinelle
- Author : Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 07, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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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 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) (1988), which required the court to impose a three-year minimum term of supervised release at sentencing for the drug offense in this case. The interplay of these two statutes is an issue of first impression in the circuit courts. We affirm the decision and order of the district court.