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The sometimes long and prickly road of probation.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) NOTE: Underdog's June 2 blog entry is being posted late. Stay tuned for a resumption of regular daily postings.  Criminal defendants sometimes focus on their time out of jail versus in jail, and not enough time on the often onerous and even draconian deprivations of liberty involved during supervised probation and parole.  Consider William Robert Bender. He got a four-year prison sentence for sexual activity with an underage female, and was ordered to be on five years of supervised release thereafter. U.S. v. Bender, __ F.3d _ (8th Cir., June 2, 2009). His probation conditions included no access to so-called "pornography" (which has no legal definition), no unsupervised contact with minors, and no access to libraries, lest he use the Internet there or look for children there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).