Rico v. United States · ¶27

Johnson is even further afeld. There, the defendant remained in prison longer than he should have. 529 U. S., at 54. After realizing the mistake, the district court ordered the defendant's release and instructed that he should begin serving his term of supervised release. Id., at 55. The defendant appealed a portion of that order, arguing that his term of supervised release should have started “when his lawful term of imprisonment expired.” Id., at 55–56. Ultimately, we rejected that argument, reasoning that the Act's terms could not sustain it. Id., at 56–58. How any of that might require us to adopt the Ninth Circuit's rule escapes us. Perhaps Johnson's only relevance to this case lies in this parallel to our case: We proceed today much as we did there, rejecting yet one more effort to adorn the Act with a rule Congress could have adopted but did not enact.

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