Sentencing – Supervised Release

Listen to this article

7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Rod Hunt

Case No.: 18-1197; 18-1198

Officials: KANNE, HAMILTON, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing – Supervised Release

While on supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender, Rod Hunt robbed a bank in Madison, Wisconsin. He pleaded guilty to bank robbery and brandishing a gun during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a), 924(c). The district judge revoked his term of supervised release and sentenced him to 172 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the new crimes. Hunt has appealed both the revocation (No. 18-1197) and the new sentence (No. 18-1198), and we have consolidated the appeals. His brief on appeal challenges only two conditions of his new term of supervised release. We affirm on those points in No. 18-1198 because in the district court Hunt waived those two challenges. His brief says nothing about the revocation of his earlier term of supervised release, and at oral argument counsel told us that Hunt has no quarrel with the revocation itself. We therefore dismiss No. 18-1197.

We AFFIRM the judgment in appeal No. 18-1198. We DISMISS appeal No. 18-1197.

Full Text

Derek A Hawkins is trademark corporate counsel for Harley-Davidson. Hawkins oversees the prosecution and maintenance of the Harley-Davidson’s international trademark portfolio in emerging markets.