United States v. Tapia-Escalera

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, through the 2003 amendment, “Congress has altered'the statute to adopt the government’s position”' that the terms of imprisonment do not aggregate (emphasis omitted)
• noting that, through the PROTECT Act, “Congress has altered the statute to adopt the government’s position” that the terms of imprisonment do not aggregate (emphasis omitted)
• reviewing de novo where the appellee did not argue for a plain error standard
• “[W]here a second violation of conditions occurs, [the offense that resulted in] language necessarily refers back to the original offense of conviction. ...”
• “[W]here a second violation of conditions occurs, [the offense that resulted in] language necessarily refers back to the original offense of conviction . . . .”
• PROTECT Act amendments support position that statutory cap \applies afresh\ to each revocation sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).