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Parties Involved:
Gregory Houston Holt
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable George Howard, Jr., United States District Judge for the

Eastern District of Arkansas.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 03-3141

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Eastern District of Arkansas.

Gregory Houston Holt, * 

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: January 13, 2004

Filed: September 9, 2004 

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Before WOLLMAN, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD,

Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Gregory Houston Holt appeals the sentence imposed by the district court1

 upon

the revocation of his supervised release. We affirm.

 Holt pled guilty to possession of a firearm with no serial number, a class D

felony, and was sentenced to three years of probation. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(k). After

violating his probation, Holt was sentenced to six months in prison and 24 months of

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supervised release. He violated the conditions of his supervised release in August

2003, whereupon the district court revoked his release and imposed a sentence of 18

months imprisonment followed by 18 months of additional supervised release. Holt

contends, citing United States v. St. John, 92 F.3d 761, 766-67 (8th Cir. 1996), that

because he was given 24 months of supervised release after his probation violation,

the additional imprisonment and supervised release ordered upon revocation must be

capped at 24 months.

We rejected an identical argument in U.S. v. Palmer, No. 03-1333, 2004 WL

1878356 (8th Cir. Aug 24, 2004) (en banc), and overruled St. John’s interpretation

of 18 U.S. C. § 3583(e)(3) and (h). We concluded that a defendant may be sentenced

to a term of imprisonment and a further term of supervised release which, in the

aggregate, do not exceed the term of supervised release authorized by statute for the

offense that resulted in the original term of supervised release. Palmer, 2004 WL

1878356, at *3. Here, because the underlying offense is a class D felony, a term of

supervised release of up to three years is authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b)(2).

Accordingly, the district court did not err in sentencing Holt to terms of imprisonment

and supervised release totaling 36 months.

The judgment is affirmed.

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