Conditions of supervised release

By: Derek Hawkins//September 19, 2016//

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Andre Willims
Case No.: 16-1913
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Conditions of supervised release

Appellant makes request for amendment to conditions of supervised release.

“If the district judge had proposed to defer decision until Williams was actually out of prison, we would be inclined to think that a mistake. Williams is entitled to know, before he leaves prison, what terms and conditions govern his supervised release. We would be reluctant to allow a judge to deem premature a request in the final year or two of imprisonment. But treating a request 14 years in advance as premature, and requiring the prisoner to make all potential arguments at one time in the year or so before release, is a sound exercise of discretion”

Affirmed

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