United States Ninth Circuit

A supervised release condition that required a convicted mail thief to spend a day standing outside a post office wearing a signboard stating, "I stole mail. This is my punishment," is found to be legal as it does not exceed the bounds of "civilized standards" of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/11/2004
• Decided 08/09/2004
• Published 08/09/2004

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: O'SCANNLAIN, SILER, JR., and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur K. Wachtel, San Francisco, CA, argued the case for the appellant and was on the briefs.   Maitreya Badami was also on the briefs., Elizabeth M. Falk, Office of the Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, CA, argued the case for amicus curiae Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of California and was on the briefs.  Barry J. Portman, Federal Public Defender, was also on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kelley Brooke Snyder, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued the case for the appellee and was on the briefs.  Kevin Ryan, United States Attorney, and Hannah Horsley and Anne-Christine Massullo, Assistant United States Attorneys, were also on the briefs.