United States v. Arch, No. 14-1354 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePhillips and Arch violated the conditions of their supervised release and were returned to court for revocation proceedings. The district judge sent them back to prison based in part on the need to “hold [them] accountable for [their] actions.” Although their cases are otherwise unrelated, their cases were consolidated on appeal. They argued that because “accountability” is not a factor listed in the revocation statute, 18 U.S.C. 3583(e), the judge committed reversible procedural error. The Seventh Circuit rejected the argument and affirmed. Accountability is an obvious concern whenever an offender has violated the conditions of supervised release— so obvious that it may not reveal the judge’s rationale for the revocation decision—but there is nothing improper about considering it. The judge considered the statutory factors in these cases, albeit in summary fashion.
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