Mont v. United States

This case asked whether a federal supervised-release term stops running while a person is jailed before trial on new charges, if that jail time is later credited toward the new sentence. The Court said yes: credited pretrial detention pauses the supervised-release term under federal law.

The Court decided on June 3, 2019, that pretrial detention later credited toward a new conviction pauses a supervised-release term. The prompt does not provide the vote count or opinion lineup.

This affects people on federal supervised release who are arrested again before that term ends. For example, a judge may still be able to revoke supervised release later if the clock stopped while the person was in credited pretrial detention.

The Supreme Court has finished this case. Lower courts must apply this rule when deciding whether a supervised-release term expired before a judge acted.

The dispute was whether supervised release keeps running during pretrial detention on new charges. The key detail was that the detention was later credited toward the new sentence.

People on federal supervised release who are jailed on new charges are most affected. The rule can extend the court's ability to act if that jail time later counts toward a conviction.

The case itself is over at the Supreme Court. Federal judges and lower courts now use this rule in later supervised-release timing disputes.