U.S. v. Warren

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Supervised Release
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 16-1492
Decision Date: 
December 5, 2016
Federal District: 
W.D. Wisc.
Holding: 
Affirmed

Dist. Ct. did not err in imposing three conditions of supervised release as part of defendant’s sentence on charges of transporting and possessing child pornography. Dist. Ct. could properly require that defendant obtain prior permission to travel outside specified judicial district, where Dist. Ct. found that such condition was required to track and control defendant, given defendant’s financial means to travel outside said district. Fact that defendant’s offenses did not include travel component was immaterial. Also, Dist. Ct. did not err in imposing no-contact with minor condition, even though defendant’s offenses concerned only possession of child pornography, since: (1) defendant’s criminal conduct evinced specific interest in children; and (2) defendant actively and specifically solicited new child pornography. Too, Dist. Ct. could properly impose requirement that defendant undergo psychosexual evaluation that involved use of polygraph examination at discretion of probation officer, where use of such examination was appropriate to obtain more complete sexual history of defendant and/or scope of defendant’s criminal conduct.