United States v. Rob Shorty

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the “ ‘failure to raise an issue before the dis- trict court results in a waiver of that issue on appeal’ ”
• observing that § 841(b)(1) subsections set a “floor requirement” for term of supervised release, “leaving the ceiling open”
• noting that the provision for the term of supervised release in § 841(b)(1)(C) “sets a floor requirement, leaving the ceiling open, closed only by a defendant’s death”
• stating that “the maximum amount of supervised release possible would have been life minus the amount of imprisonment imposed during the sentencing for revocation,” but not deciding whether such a sentence would be possible to impose
• observing § 841(b)(1) subsections set a “floor requirement” for term of supervised release, “leaving the ceiling open, closed only by a defendant’s death”
• “failure to raise an issue before the district court results in waiver of that issue on appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).