U.S. v. Edwards

Dist. Ct. did not abuse its discretion in imposing 27-month terms of incarceration, as well as series of conditions on defendant’s supervised release arising out of defendant’s conviction for failure to register as sex offender, where such conditions: (1) required that defendant inform employers and others of his criminal record and his obligation to register as sex offender; (2) banned meeting/spending time with minors absent permission from minor’s parent and defendant’s probation officer; and (3) banned working in any job or volunteer activity in which he would have access to minors without permission from probation officer. Ct. rejected defendant’s argument that instant conditions were impermissibly vague. Moreover Ct. rejected his argument that none of the instant conditions were warranted because he had no record of engaging in sexual conduct with minors, where: (1) defendant’s discharge summary indicated that he still had sexual interest in children; (2) defendant had history of failing to register as sex offender, and he had been in possession of DVD depicting sexual activity between adults and teenagers; and (3) instant conditions were necessary proactive measures to avoid giving defendant opportunity to abuse minors. Also, instant conditions were appropriate given past incidents, where defendant had lied to his landlord about his sexual offender status and stayed in household with 14-year-old child without disclosing his status.