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.
Read US v. Santiago-Rivera, No. 08-1499
Appellate Information
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maine
Decided February 5, 2010
Judges
Before: Torruella, Seyla and Hoawrd, Circuit Judges
Opinion by Circuit Judge Seyla
Counsel
For Appellant: Irma R. Valldejuli
For Appellee: Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney
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