Rico v. United States · ¶1

A criminal defendant, on supervised release from federal prison, must comply with various conditions—both mandatory (commit no more crimes, see 18 U. S. C. § 3583(d)) and discretionary (commonly, “report to a probation officer as directed” and “notify the probation officer promptly of any change in address,” §§ 3563(b)(15), (17)). Violating a prescribed condition may result in the revocation of supervised release and a return to prison, § 3583(e)(3), as well as an additional “term of supervised release after imprisonment,” § 3583(h). After petitioner Isabel Rico violated the terms of her supervised release conditions, the judge revoked her release and ordered her to serve two months of additional imprisonment and a new 42-month term of supervised release set to expire in 2021. When released the second time, Ms. Rico again violated her conditions by changing her residence without…

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