Opinion ID: 537614
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Text: 2 Defendant-appellant Stanley Ferryman was indicted by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire. The indictment was in two counts, but our concern is exclusively with count 2. Therein, appellant was charged with possession of nine ounces of pure cocaine, more or less, with intent to distribute the same, in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a). The offense occurred in September 1987. Ferryman pled guilty and was sentenced to a jail term plus a term of supervised release. He did not appeal. 3 On August 19, 1988, appellant moved to correct an illegal sentence. He argued, among other things, that supervised release was inexigible. On August 30, the district court, agreeing, vacated the supervised release term. Eventually, the court ruled that a special parole term, rather than a term of supervised release, was mandated in conjunction with the prison sentence levied on count 2. An amended judgment containing a three-year special parole term was issued. Ferryman appealed from the amended judgment.