By: Derek Hawkins//February 22, 2016//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Easton Henry
Case No.: 14-3810
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Sentencing
Conditions of supervised release where probation officer would have home visits deemed unreasonable.
“There is also a question of what the probation officer would hope to learn from home visits that he would not learn from the defendant’s required visits to the probation office. A defendant who has contraband in his home is un- likely to leave it in the “plain view” of the visiting probation officer. But in any event the home-visit condition is not mandatory, and being optional can be modified by the district judge to fit the particulars of the case.”
Judgment vacated and remanded for full resentencing