Opinion ID: 553254
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Heading: Ripeness of Appellant's Claim

Text: 11 Appellant Linares attacks the sentence as being beyond the one year maximum term of imprisonment for first time offenders as set forth under 21 U.S.C. Sec. 844(a) for misdemeanor simple possession of controlled substances. Our prior decisions in United States v. Doering, 909 F.2d 392 (9th Cir.1990); United States v. Montenegro-Rojo, 908 F.2d 425, 432 n. 9 (9th Cir.1990); and United States v. Robertson, 901 F.2d 733 (9th Cir.1990) preclude Linares's general argument that the sum of his supervised release term and the term of his custodial sentence may not exceed the statutory maximum term of imprisonment. Doering, 909 F.2d at 393; Montenegro-Rojo, 908 F.2d at 433; Robertson, 901 F.2d at 735. 12 Linares, however, raises an argument that was not squarely addressed, and is not entirely foreclosed by the Doering, Montenegro-Rojo and Robertson rulings. Linares asserts that because the sentence includes a one year term of supervised release in addition to his sentence of six months imprisonment, the sentence renders the appellant amenable to imprisonment for more than one year if the district court revokes the supervised release. The appellant correctly notes that under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3583(e)(3), the district court may revoke the term of supervised release and require him to serve all or part of the term of supervised release in prison. 13 The issue Linares raises is not ripe for review. Linares is not challenging the imposition of supervised release; he is challenging the potential revocation of his supervised release and the effect it would have upon his ultimate punishment. We conclude that he lacks standing to challenge hypothetically a revocation that may never occur. 1 See United States v. Montenegro-Rojo, 908 F.2d at 432 n. 9 (noting that appellant's argument concerning the potential revocation of supervised release and substituting imprisonment for a portion thereof described a hypothetical situation that has not occurred and that appellant lacked standing to raise the argument). 2