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Parties Involved:
James Preston Martin
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F I L 

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TENTH CIRCUIT United Stat.es Ciolu·tof Appeal£ 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

JAMES PRESTON MARTIN, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

Tenth Ci1't!tlit 

NOV 9 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 91-5173 

(D.C. No. 91-C-193-C) 

(N.D. Okla.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Appellant James Preston Martin appeals an order of the United 

States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma 

denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 u.s.c. 

§ 2255. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 

affirm. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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On May 14, 1986, Mr. Martin pleaded guilty to one violation 

of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1) in exchange for the following sentence: 

(1) three years imprisonment; (2) a special assessment of fifty 

dollars; and (3) five years special parole. Having returned to 

prison after violating his special parole, Martin requests this 

court to vacate and set aside his present sentence on the ground 

that special parole was unauthorized at the time of his sentence. 

The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 was enacted on October 12, 

1984, and modified the penalty scheme for federal drug offenders 

by replacing "special parole" with "supervised release." Pub. L. 

No. 97-473, tit. II, ch. II, 98 Stat. 1987. As amended, however, 

the effective date of this change was November 1, 1987. See 

Gozlon-Peret v. United States, 111 S. Ct. 840, 844-45 (1991). 

Thus, a sentence of special parole was authorized both at the time 

of the underlying offense and at the time of his conviction. 

AFFIRMED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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