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Cite as: 529 U. S. 694 (2000)

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Opinion of the Court

supervised release, a form of postconﬁnement monitoring
overseen by the sentencing court, rather than the Parole
Commission. See Gozlon-Peretz v. United States, 498 U. S.
395, 400–401 (1991). The sentencing court was authorized
to impose a term of supervised release to follow imprison-
ment, with the maximum length of the term varying accord-
ing to the severity of the initial offense. See 18 U. S. C.
§§ 3583(a), (b). While on supervised release, the offender
was required to abide by certain conditions, some speci-
ﬁed by statute and some imposable at the court’s discretion.
See § 3583(d). Upon violation of a condition, 18 U. S. C.
§ 3583(e)(3) (1988 ed., Supp. V) authorized the court to “re-
voke a term of supervised release, and require the person to
serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release
without credit for time previously served on post-release
supervision . . . .” 1 Such was done here.

In October 1993, petitioner Cornell Johnson violated 18
U. S. C. § 1029(b)(2), a Class D felony.
In March 1994, the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Ten-
nessee sentenced him to 25 months’ imprisonment, to be fol-
lowed by three years of supervised release, the maximum
term available under § 3583(b) for a Class D felony.
Johnson
was released from prison on August 14, 1995, having re-
ceived good-conduct credits, and began serving his 3-year
term of supervised release. Some seven months into that
term, he was arrested in Virginia and later convicted of four
state forgery-related offenses. He was thus found to have
violated one of the conditions of supervised release made
mandatory by § 3583(d), that he not commit another crime
during his term of supervised release, and one imposed by
the District Court, that he not leave the judicial district
without permission.

1 The current version of § 3583(e)(3) reads slightly differently, but
for reasons discussed below, we focus on the law in effect at the time of
Johnson’s initial crime.