United States v. Vanhorn, No. 10-3294 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was sentenced to 71 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release after being convicted of eleven counts of mail fraud and three counts of money laundering over a decade ago. At issue was whether defendant violated the condition of supervised release requiring him to stay at a halfway house for six months because his refusals to go to a halfway house were mere talk and he was never told when to arrive at any particular halfway house. The court held that, in the face of such clear and repeated refusals, the district court did not clearly err in finding defendant refused to go to a halfway house even though he never received a placement or report date. The court also rejected the several issues defendant raised pro se where the court carefully reviewed the record and discerned no nonfrivolous issues.
Court Description: Criminal case - criminal law. Defendant's refusal to go to a halfway house and his threat to sue a halfway house if it accepted him constituted violations of the provisions of his supervised release.
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