United States v. Bryant, No. 13-3845 (7th Cir. 2014)
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The defendant pleaded guilty to a federal drug offense and was sentenced to 144 months in prison (his guidelines range was 188 to 235 months). He appealed. His lawyer filed an Anders brief to which the defendant did not respond. The Seventh Circuit dismissed after noting a number of problems with conditions of supervised release, including that the judge gave no reasons for imposing 13 of the 15 possible standard conditions that he imposed; that there was no indication that any of the conditions were shown to the defendant’s lawyer before the judge imposed them, or that the lawyer discussed supervised release with her client; and that, in two of the conditions the defendant, though a man, is referred to as “she” or “her.” However, because the attorney did not raise those issues and the defendant did not respond to the Anders brief, the court concluded that it had no basis for reversing the sentence.
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