United States Third Circuit

District court's sentence of 24 months' imprisonment upon a defendant following revocation of his supervised release, with the objective of helping him recover from his cocaine addiction, is affirmed where: 1) because the plain language and operation of the statute governing post-revocation sentencing, 18 U.S.C. sections 3583(e) and (g), permits a district court to consider medical and rehabilitative needs in imposing a term of post-revocation imprisonment, the sentence is procedurally reasonable; and 2) district court's sentence is substantively reasonable as defendant has failed to meet the burden of demonstrating that no reasonable sentencing court would have imposed the same sentence for the reasons the district court provided.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/14/2010
• Decided 08/16/2010
• Published 08/16/2010

Judges

• FISHER

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Candace Cain, Robert L. Eberhardt