United States First Circuit

Conditions to supervised release are intended to be tailored specifically for each occassion, so even onerous requirements are not "departures" from the Sentencing Guidelines. Further, since such conditions are meant to ease a prisoner's return to society, the district court did not commit plain error in requiring cocaine dealer to abstain from drinking alcohol.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2000
• Published 12/18/2000

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges, and LISI, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leslie Feldman-Rumpler, by appointment of the court, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter E. Papps, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Paul M. Gagnon, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.