United States Fifth Circuit

Supervised-release portion of a sentence for knowingly transporting an illegal alien is vacated and remanded where: 1) defendant had been imprisoned for six months upon a revocation of his initial supervised release; and 2) the maximum allowable supervised release following multiple revocations must be reduced by the aggregate length of any terms of imprisonment that have been imposed upon revocation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/08/2008
• Published 09/08/2008

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before GARZA and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and MINALDI, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Richard Berry, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S., Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Laura Fletcher Leavitt, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Houston, TX, for Vera.