Opinion ID: 3003757
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Heading: Harre

Text: In July 1999, Harre pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1). His initial sentence was 135 months’ imprisonment, but it too was later reduced (in his case to 90 months) to reward his substantial assistance. He began his term of supervised release in November 2005. Harre, too, proved to be incapable of adhering to the conditions of his release. In May 2008, after testing positive for cocaine, he received a warning from the district court. The warning did not deter him, and so in November 2008 his probation officer filed a petition for revocation of his supervised release, alleging that Harre had driven under the influence, fled the scene of an accident, committed other traffic offenses, illegally possessed cocaine, drank excessively, and failed to notify his probation officer after being arrested. Harre’s revocation hearing also took place on March 26, 2009. At the hearing, he admitted that he had violated the conditions of his release. The most serious violation was Grade B, which, with Harre’s criminal history category of I, resulted in a re-imprisonment range of four to 10 months. See U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4(a). Harre requested a term within the advisory range, asserting that the district court still had the authority after Head Nos. 09-1958, 09-1962 & 09-1963 7 to impose halfway-house placement as a condition of supervised release. He noted that the BOP was not obliged to follow the court’s recommendation for such placement during the last six months of the prison term. Like Anderson, Harre did not offer to waive any potential ex post facto argument. The district court, suspecting that Harre had been intoxicated when he left the scene of the accident and dubious about the adequacy of Harre’s four-month state term of incarceration on the traffic offenses, imposed an above-range term of 20 months’ re-imprisonment, again with a recommendation that the BOP place him in a halfway house for the final six months.