United States v. Clarence Trotter

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an appeal of a sen- tence was still live even though the defendant had been re- leased from prison and was serving supervised release
• asking “how can one determine whether an offense is ‘punishable’ by a particular term without considering all of the ingredients that set the maximum punishment?”
• “Application Note 1 tells the district judge to consider what the person on supervised release did, rather than what crimes he has been charged with.”
• “Unless we are confident that [the former inmate] cannot benefit from success on appeal, the case is not moot.”
• “Unless we are confident that [the former inmate] cannot benefit from success on appeal, the case is not moot.”
• “A judge engaged in real-offense sentencing does not ignore prior offenses that affect the maximum punishment; recidivist enhancements are part of real-offense sentencing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).