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for the Third Circuit

5-25-2004

USA v. Marrero

Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 03-3753

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NOT PRECEDENTIAL

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

 

No. 03-3753

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 v.

ANTHONY MARRERO,

 Appellant

 

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT

OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

D.C. Crim. No. 91-cr-00014-3

District Judge: The Honorable Raymond L. Finch, Chief Judge

 

Argued: May 7, 2004

 

Before: BARRY, AMBRO, and SMITH, Circuit Judges

 

(Opinion Filed: May 25, 2004)

 

Stephen A. Brusch, Esq. (Argued)

Suite 2G

International Plaza

P.O. Box 988

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

USVI, 00804

Attorney for Appellant
 

1Appellant also argued that assuming his term of supervised release had expired, the

delay caused by the government in holding his revocation hearing was not reasonably

necessary. 

2

Tracey Christopher, Esq. (Argued)

St. Clair Theodore, Esq.

Office of the United States Attorney

1108 King Street, Suite 201

Christiansted, St. Croix

USVI, 00820

Attorney for Appellee

 

OPINION

 

BARRY, Circuit Judge

By order entered August 22, 2003, the District Court revoked the term of

supervised release appellant Anthony Marrero was then serving and sentenced him to a

term of imprisonment of twenty-four months. In this appeal, appellant argued that the

District Court lacked power to revoke his term of supervised release because, at the time

of revocation, that term had expired.1 

Because we were unable to determine from the record and the briefs of the parties

whether supervised release had expired and, if so, when, counsel were directed to provide

at oral argument “the dates, if any, from February 5, 1999 to August 19, 2003 during

which Marrero was incarcerated and whether such period or periods of incarceration, if
any, were ‘in connection with a conviction for a Federal, State or local crime.’ See 18

U.S.C. § 3624(e).” 

At oral argument, appellant’s counsel advised the Court, and counsel for the

United States did not dispute, that appellant had been incarcerated “in connection with a

Federal, State or local offense” from May 12, 2001 to August 19, 2003, the date of the

revocation hearing. It was, therefore, apparent that the three year term of supervised

release which had been imposed on February 5, 1999 had not expired when that term was

revoked because incarceration tolls a period of supervised release. The order of the

District Court, entered on August 22, 2003, will, therefore, be affirmed.