special-conditions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6761 Eric Vaughn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release If a criminal defendant receives a term of supervised release, the district court will specify the conditions that the defendant must follow. See 18 U…
21-7225 Milton Lattimore v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency special-conditions trial-fitness Whether a person who is fit to stand trial only with special conditions is denied due process when the trial court accepts a guilty plea entered witho…
21-5045 Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a…
20-5836 Rosie Diggles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at…
19-5636 Roger Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal 1. Does a waiver of appeal, included in a written plea bargain agreement, procedurally bar the Petitioner's appeal to the Fifth Circuit wherein he arg…