United States v. Legg, No. 11-3077 (D.C. Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseAppellant pled guilty to persuading a person to travel in interstate commerce to engage in criminal sexual activity. On appeal, appellant challenged all of the computer- and Internet-related conditions of his supervised release. In the district court, however, he objected to only one of those conditions: the single-device restriction. The court held that the district court did not plainly err in imposing the unobjected-to conditions. The court also held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing the single-device restriction on the record that court had before it. The district court explained that the one-device limit was necessary to ensure that the probation officer would be able to effectively monitor appellant's Internet use at a reasonable cost. Given that the Internet was appellant's avenue of choice for seeking out a victim, there was no doubt that such monitoring was itself reasonably related to the nature and circumstances of his offense, to deterring criminal conduct, and to protecting the public from further crimes. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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