United States v. Wilson, No. 12-2310 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm as a felon and domestic abuse misdemeanor. After defendant stipulated to violating multiple terms of his supervised release, the district court revoked his supervised release and ordered him not to have contact with his domestic abuse victim and her family members. The court held that the district court was not required to make factual findings because it articulated other sufficient justifications for the no-contact order. The court need not decide whether it could interpret the no-contact order as a non-binding recommendation because the court accepted the government's argument that even if the district court did improperly issue an unauthorized binding order, the error was harmless. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. District court articulated sufficient justifications for the imposition of a no-contact provision in defendant's supervised release; any error in extending the no-contact order to cover defendant's term of imprisonment was harmless as there was no evidence that the order had any impact on defendant during his now-completed prison sentence. [ March 13, 2013
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