Revocation

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Jamie Golden

Case No.: 16-1232

Officials: POSNER, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges

Focus: Revocation

Shortly after Jamie Golden was released from prison, the government petitioned for revocation of his supervised release. While in jail pending the conclusion of revocation proceedings, Golden was involved in a prison fight in which he repeatedly battered a fellow inmate. As a result, the district judge found that he had committed an aggravated battery—a Grade A violation of his supervised re‐ lease—and revoked his release. On appeal, Golden claims that the district judge erroneously concluded that an aggravated battery had occurred, and that even if it had, it did not constitute a Grade A violation. We disagree. Golden unquestionably battered the other inmate, and because it occurred on public property (a county jail), the battery was aggravated. And the Grade A label was appropriate, since Golden’s conduct qualifies as a “crime of violence” under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Golden also claims that the district judge failed to make the requisite factual findings that supported the duration and conditions of his newly imposed supervised release. But Golden waived this argument by asking for the duration he ultimately received and by affirmatively withdrawing his objections to the conditions he now challenges. So we affirm the district judge’s revocation of Golden’s initial supervised release and her imposition of new supervised‐release conditions.

Affirmed

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