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SUBMITTED MAY 26, 2010

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

The defendant’s supervised release was revoked because he admitted having violated its terms by helping to distribute marijuana; by way of sanction the judge ordered him to serve 36 months in prison. The defendant appealed. His lawyer has filed an Anders brief in which he reviews the grounds for an appeal and concludes convincingly that all would be frivolous. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Only one point in the brief warrants discussion. The defendant admitted as we said that he had violated the terms of his supervised release, and, as the Anders brief explains, there can be no doubt that the admissions were knowing and voluntary, so that any challenge to them would be certain to fail. But we add that the defendant could not prevail even if the admissions were not shown to be knowing and voluntary. For he does not ask to withdraw the admissions. He objects to the 36-month prison term that the judge imposed but not to the revocation of supervised release on the basis of the admissions he made.

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