United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence to thirty months in prison and three-year term of supervised release for threatening federal officials are affirmed but special conditions in connection with supervised release ordering defendant to not possess pornography, not enter places where pornography could be obtained, not have contact with children, and submit to invasive sex offender tests are vacated and remanded as the district court offered scant explanation for any of the challenged special conditions and no explanations for the pornography conditions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2009
• Published 10/19/2009

Judges

• Before MOTZ and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and DAMON J. KEITH, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Mary Elizabeth Maguire, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.  Stephen David Schiller, Office Of The United States Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Michael S. Nachmanoff, Federal Public Defender, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.