The following excerpt is from USA. v. Pinjuv, 218 F.3d 1125 (9th Cir. 2000):
rights due a defendant in such a proceeding does not apply to parole revocations"). Revocation proceedings do not punish a defendant for a new offense. Instead, they trigger the execution of the conditions of the original sentence for the offense of which the defendant has already been convicted. See United States v. Paskow, 11 F.3d 873, 881 (9th Cir. 1993) (holding that revocations of supervised release and revocations of parole are indistinguishable for most purposes). In Standlee v. Rhay, 557 F.2d 1303 (9th Cir. 1977), in reviewing the validity of a parole revocation, we stated as follows:
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