Rico v. United States · ¶16

Start with what the Act says about when supervised release begins and ends. The Act instructs that a term of supervised release starts “the day the person is released from imprisonment.” § 3624(e). The Act then tells us when a term of supervised release must end, generally setting its maximum length at one, three, or five years, depending on the severity of the defendant's underlying offense. § 3583(b). Neither provision hints at anything like the Ninth Circuit's automatic extension rule. To the contrary, that rule risks fouting the Act by permitting courts to extend supervised release beyond even the maximum terms set by Congress.

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