Rico v. United States · ¶33

In the end, the government is left to resort to a policy plea. The Act may supply courts with many tools to address absconding defendants. A court may even revoke a defendant's supervised release after his judicially ordered term of supervised release has expired so long as a warrant or summons issues before the term ends. See § 3583(i). But in cases where a defendant absconds late in his supervised release term, the government protests, a probation officer may not realize his absence in time to secure a warrant or summons, leaving a court powerless to address violations after the term expires. It's a problem, the government insists, we should remedy by endorsing the Ninth Circuit's rule.

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