A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal
defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of
supervised release. If the defendant violates the conditions
of supervised release, the court may revoke supervised release
and require the defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the
term of supervised release authorized by statute for the
offense that resulted in such term of supervised release." 18
U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3).
If a defendant has multiple violations of supervised
release, can the court require the defendant to serve in prison
a cumulative total that exceeds the term of supervised release
imposed for his offense?
Whether a court can impose a cumulative prison sentence for multiple supervised release violations that exceeds the original term of supervised release