United States v. Andrew Leander Pierce

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that under the ACA a defendant “may be sentenced only in the way and to the extent that the person could have been sentenced in state court” (internal quotations omitted)
• affirming imposition of supervised release for a term beyond the maximum time allowed by state law for incarceration
• “a federal court . . . will not assimilate a state sentencing provision that conflicts with federal sentencing policy.”
• “[S]upervised release is not considered to be a part of the incarceration portion of a sentence”
• “[A] term of imprisonment imposed for an assimilated crime may not exceed the maximum term established by state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).