Opinion ID: 3052201
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Heading: Tsui’s Contentions

Text: Tsui raises a single issue on appeal: he argues that his supervised release should end in June 2008, rather than in December 2008. Tsui reasons as follows: (a) pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4106A(b)(1)(C) the combined periods of imprisonment and supervised release may not exceed the 60 months imposed by the Korean court; and (b) because the Parole Commission imposed a period of imprisonment of 52 months, the period of supervised release cannot be greater than 8 months. In support of his approach, Tsui argues that the Bureau of Prisons, not the Parole Commission is charged with determining good time credits, citing Ajala, 997 F.2d at 65556. He also argues that the Parole Commission must establish “a known period of supervised release” and may not set forth “an end-date for supervision” because the Parole Commission “is not in a position to determine the effect of good time credit on the sentence.” Tsui further argues that the Parole Commission’s regulation, 28 C.F.R. § 2.68(a)(5), which he admits “purports to authorize exactly what the Parole Commission did,” is not entitled to deference under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), because the regulation conflicts with the language of the statute.2 2 28 C.F.R. § 2.68(a)(5) reads: The release date that is determined by the Commission under 18 U.S.C. 4106A(b)(1)(A) is a prison release determination and does not represent the imposition of a new sentence for the transferee. However, the release date shall be treated by the Bureau of Prisons as if it were the full term date of a sentence for the purpose of establishing a release date pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 4105(c)(1). The Bureau of Prisons release date shall supersede the release date established by the Parole Commission under 18 U.S.C. 7452 UNITED STATES v. TSUI In particular, Tsui asserts that the statute “ ‘contravenes the structure and language of the statute as a whole,’ Nat’l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Maine Corp., 503 U.S. 407, 417 (1992), because it imports calculation conducted under 18 U.S.C. § 4105 into the calculation conducted under section 4106A.” Tsui contends that “the period of imprisonment and the period of supervised release imposed by the Parole Commission should be used to determine whether the foreign sentence has been exceeded.”