232176P.pdf   02/08/2024  United States  v.  Charles Lester, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-2176
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The 2002 amendment to 18 U.S.C. Sec. 
   841(b)(1)(A) does not prevent the district court from exercising authority 
   under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3583(e)(1) to terminate defendant's supervised 
   release early; under a plain reading of 841(b)(1)(A), then, in spite of 
   Sec. 3583, a district court must impose a five-year term of supervised 
   release; however, section 841(b)(1) does not impact a court's ability 
   under sec. 3583(e)(1) to later terminate that individual's supervised 
   release after they have served at least one year; thus, the district court 
   erred in determining it did not have discretion to consider a request for 
   early termination; reversed and remanded for further proceedings