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State Pretrial Detention Tolls Federal SR Term

By Jonathan Byrne

US v. Ide: Ide was on a three-year term of supervised release when he was arrested on state charges, for which he was eventually convicted and sentenced. He spent about seven months in pretrial detention on the state charges and was given credit for that time when sentenced by the state court. Two years after being released from state custody, Ide was arrested for violating the terms of his supervised release. He moved to have the petition dismissed, arguing that his term of supervised release had ended because the it was not tolled, under 18 USC 3624(e), during the seven months he spent in state pretrial detention. The district court denied the motion, revoked Ide's term of supervised release, returned him to prison, and imposed a further term of supervised release (which Ide has subsequently violated)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Circuit Blog on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).