United States Third Circuit

Defendant's sentence was vacated since the district judge relied on an incorrect understanding of the law, mistakenly believing that the Bureau of Prisons had the discretion to place defendant in a community corrections center.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2004
• Decided 07/12/2004
• Published 07/12/2004

Judges

• Before SLOVITER and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Shelley Stark, Federal Public Defender, Lisa B. Freeland, (Argued), Assistant Federal Public Defender, Pittsburgh, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Beth Buchanan, United States Attorney, Christine A. Sanner, (Argued), Bonnie R. Schlueter, Assistant United States Attorneys, Pittsburgh, for Appellee.