Does a sentence for drug possession constitute a parole violation?
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The following excerpt is from U.S.A. v. Garcia-Hernandez, 237 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2000):
Although it was appellant's illegal re-entry into the United States that triggered revocation of his parole, New York's authority to prescribe conditions of parole, and to imprison appellant if he violated those conditions, was drawn from the sentence that New York originally imposed for drug possession. See United States v.
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