Mont v. United States

Mont v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 2019 Decided June 3, 2019
Full case name	Jason J. Mont v. United States
Docket no.	17-8995
Citations	587 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 1826; 204 L. Ed. 2d 94
Case history
Prior	United States v. Mont, 723 F. App'x 325 (6th Cir. 2018) cert. granted, 202 L. Ed. 2d 346 (2018).
Questions presented
Whether a term of supervised release for one offense is paused by imprisonment for another offense within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. §3624(e).
Holding
Pretrial detention that is later credited as time served tolls a term of supervised release under 18 U.S.C. §3624(e).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Alito, Kavanaugh
Dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer, Kagan, Gorsuch

Mont v. United States, No. 17-8995, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the proper interpretation of "supervised release" under 18 U.S.C. §3624(e). The case involved a prisoner who was convicted on drug distribution charges and was sentenced to imprisonment and supervised release. While on supervised release, he was charged and pleaded guilty to various state-law offenses, but due to administrative delays, his sentence was not entered until after the day on which his supervised release was to end. He was nonetheless charged with violating the terms of his supervised release, and he sought to challenge the court's jurisdiction to hear the case, arguing that his pretrial detention for the later offenses. The question in the case was whether a term of supervised release for one event can be tolled (paused) by imprisonment for another offense.

The Supreme Court decided that a term of supervised release is paused by imprisonment for another offense in a 5–4 decision that did not conform to typical ideological lines.^[1] Justice Thomas authored the majority opinion, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, and Ginsburg joined.^[2] Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Gorsuch.^[2]