United States v. Fields, No. 13-51060 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant, convicted of second degree sexual assault of a child, subsequently pled guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 42 U.S.C. 16901 et seq. On appeal, he challenged the district court's imposition of a condition of supervised release prohibiting defendant from "residing or going to places where a minor or minors are known to frequent without prior approval of the probation officer." The court concluded that the district court could reasonably have concluded that stronger remedial measures were necessary in this case considering defendant's history of sexual assault of children along with his failure to respond to the "first order" remedy of registration. Further, even if the district court was in error, the error was not "clear or obvious." Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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