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Special SR Conditions Must Be Imposed at Sentencing Hearing

By Jonathan Byrne

US v. Rogers: Rogers was on supervised release when he was convicted of state charges involving drugs. At the revocation hearing, the district court imposed a sentence of 24 months in prison, plus an additional term of supervised release. It did not mention anything about conditions of supervised release. Weeks later, in the written judgement order, the district court imposed 26 conditions of supervised release - four mandated by statute and 22 "standard" conditions that had been adopted by the court in a standing order. On appeal, the Fourth Circuit vacated Rogers' sentence. It held that imposing conditions of supervised release in a written judgment, without first announcing them orally at sentencing, violated the defendant's right to be present...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Circuit Blog on June 09, 2020 (boomark / email).