United States First Circuit

After guilty pleas to drug conspiracy charges, 21 U.S.C. section 841(b) controlled, and conferred authority upon the district court to impose a ten-year term of supervised release, but such a term amounted to an upward departure requiring prior notice and a statement on the record as to the aggravating circumstances warranting such a departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2002
• Published 12/02/2002

Judges

• LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• 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.