United States First Circuit

District court's imposition of a sentence upon a defendant in connection with the revocation of a term of supervised release is vacated and remanded as the district court committed a procedural error by selecting a sentence for the sole purpose of controlling the running of an unrelated local sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2010
• Published 02/05/2010

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Irma R. Valldejuli on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.