United States v. Sandoval

USCA1 Opinion




November 7, 1995 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT



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No. 95-1326

UNITED STATES,

Appellee,

v.

DON SANDOVAL,

Defendant, Appellant.


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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND


[Hon. Mary M. Lisi, U.S. District Judge] ___________________

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Before

Selya, Cyr and Boudin,
Circuit Judges. ______________

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Don Sandoval on brief pro se. ____________
Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, Margaret E. Curran __________________ ___________________
and Gerard B. Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorneys, on brief ___________________
for appellee.


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Per Curiam. Defendant Don Sandoval appeals from __________

the sentence the district court imposed on him following the

revocation of a term of supervised release. The court

sentenced defendant to both a term of imprisonment and a term

of supervised release.

Defendant first argues that the supervised release

revocation provision, 18 U.S.C. 3583(e)(3), does not permit

the imposition of a term of supervised release and a term of ___

imprisonment. We rejected this precise argument in United ______

States v. O'Neil, 11 F.3d 292 (1st Cir. 1993), and re- ______ ______

affirmed our position in United States v. LaPlante, 28 F.3d 1 _____________ ________

(1st Cir. 1994) (per curiam), cert. denied, 115 S.Ct. 910 _____________

(1995). Defendant has not presented any persuasive reasons

why we should change this recent statement of the law.

Defendant's second argument on appeal is that the

district court violated the prohibition of the ex post facto _____________

clause by applying 3583(h) to him. This section was added

in 1994. It specifically provides that when revoking a term

of supervised release under subsection (e)(3), a district

court may include a requirement of supervised release after

imprisonment.

To fall within the ex post facto prohibition, the ______________

new law "must disadvantage the offender affected by it."

Miller v. Florida, 482 U.S. 423, 430 (1987) (internal ______ _______

quotations and citation omitted). Assuming the district



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court used subsection (h), defendant was not disadvantaged.

In O'Neil, we already had construed subsection (e)(3) to ______

permit what subsection (h) now grants expressly. Cf. United ___ ______

States v. Hartman, 57 F.3d 670, 671 (8th Cir. 1995) (per ______ _______

curiam) (the legislative history of subsection (h) shows that

subsection(e)(3) permits both incarceration and supervised

release).

Based on the foregoing, the judgment of the

district court is affirmed. ________



































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