United States v. Sandra Clayton

This is an appeal from a district court judgment revoking probation of defendant-appellant and ordering execution of her original sentence of imprisonment. Sandra Clayton pleaded guilty to one count of possessing counterfeit government obligations as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 472 . She was sentenced on October 7, 1974, to six years imprisonment. However, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3651 , it was ordered that appellant serve the first ninety days of her sentence on consecutive weekends in a jail-type institution. The balance of the six-year sentence was suspended, and she was placed on five years probation on the following conditions: that she “(1) obey all laws, Fed eral, State and local; (2) comply with all the rules and regulations of the Probation Officer; and (3) keep and maintain the order of the Court with respect to the jail-type sentence imposed.” Record at 7.

Clayton satisfactorily served twelve consecutive weekends (twenty-four days) of imprisonment. On March 15, 1975, she failed to appear for a weekend of incarceration at the Los Angeles County Jail, and probation revocation proceedings were commenced pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3653 . At the probation revocation hearing held…