U.S. v. Price

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant-transgender woman to 18-month term of incarceration plus 18 months of additional supervised release, after Dist. Ct. revoked defendant’s term of supervised release. While defendant argued that Dist. Ct. committed procedural error by failing to adequately consider her argument that continued incarceration was inappropriate, where 40 percent of transgender women experience sexual assault while incarcerated, record showed that Dist. Ct. actually considered defendant’s argument, but rejected it in its discretion in light of defendant’s violations of her prior term of supervised release, which included loss of placement at half-way house due to use of drugs, missed drug tests and flight from Wisconsin after incident in which defendant stabbed man in what defendant claimed was self-defense.