Sentencing – Supervised Release

By: Derek Hawkins//April 27, 2020//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Monta Groce

Case No.: 19-1170

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing – Supervised Release

Monta Groce challenges two conditions of supervised release that were imposed as part of his sentence for various sex trafficking crimes. In the district court, Groce did not object to either of the two conditions, even though he objected to four others and waived his right to have the district court read each condition and its justification. We have faced this situation in several recent decisions and have found that these circumstances normally amount to waiver. There is nothing unusual in Groce’s case that would call for a different result. We thus hold that he waived his appellate challenges to the two conditions, and we affirm.

Affirmed

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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.

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