Sentencing Guidelines – Supervised Release

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Gregory Greene

Case No.: 19-3069

Officials: MANION, WOOD, and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing Guidelines – Supervised Release

Gregory Greene pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(1), 2252A(b)(1), and received a within‐guidelines prison sentence and a life term of supervised release. On appeal, he argues that the district court committed a procedural error in sentencing him to lifelong supervision because it violated the parsimony provision of the sentencing statute, which requires that a sentence be “sufficient, but not greater than necessary.” See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). Specifically, he challenges the district court’s statement that, for him, terms of 10 years and life would be “effectively the same” because his life after prison would be “short.” But the district court considered the guidelines and explained, with reference to the factors under § 3553(a), why it believed that a life term of supervised release was necessary, so we affirm.

Affirmed

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