A debate about what kind of resentencing the federal sentencing laws and guidelines permit when a judge revokes a felon’s supervised release dominated an oral argument at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 8. At issue was whether it was proper to use an additional term of imprisonment as a treatment mechanism for a sex offender.

Lawyers and judges at the hearing in U.S. v. Molignaro parsed how district courts may resentence such offenders.

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