5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacating various conditions of supervised release imposing bans on internet access, computer use, and other activities and remanding for re-sentencing.
United States v. Herndon (5th Cir. 2020)
Posted: March 25, 2020
United States v. Arbaugh (4th Cir. 2020)
Posted: February 25, 2020
4th Circuirt Court of Appeals opinion affirming in part a federal sentence for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign country, but reversing in part on the grounds that the district court failed to articulate reasons supporting computer-related conditions of supervised release.
Fazili v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: December 9, 2019
Virginia Court of Appeals reversing trial court's imposition of general internet usage restriction as a condition of probation without articulating why such a condition would be narrowly tailored.
United States v. Carson (8th Cir. 2019)
Posted: June 17, 2019
8th Circuit opinion affirming imposition of social media-related restrictions for individual on federal supervised release.
United States v. Eaglin (2nd Cir. 2019)
Posted: June 17, 2019
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision reversing trial court imposing internet ban and prohibition on viewing pornography as substantively unreasonable conditions of federal supervised release.
Iowa v. Aschbrenner (Iowa 2019)
Posted: April 7, 2019
Iowa Supreme Court Opinion affirming the conviction of Appellant who was charged with violating Internet Identifier reporting requirements over challenges based on Ex Post Facto Clause and First Amendment grounds.
United States v. Holena (3rd Cir. 2018)
Posted: December 19, 2018
Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in context of revocation of Supervised Release, reversed imposition of lifetime internet use ban.
Weida v. State (Ind. 2018)
Posted: December 19, 2018
Indiana Supreme Court holding that requirement that person on supervision for sex offense obtain approval from probation officer to access internet was unreasonable.
Delgado v. Swearingen (N.D. Fla. 2018)
Posted: November 26, 2018
District Court for the Northern District of Florida held, in context of civil rights lawsuit under First and Fourteenth Amendments, that Florida statutes requiring those on sex offense registry provide internet identifiers to authorities was constitutional, though enjoined FDLE from public disclosure.
People v. Ellis (N.Y. 2019)
Posted: September 26, 2018
New York Court of Appeals reversing decision of a trial court in refusing to dismiss an indictment charging Appellant with violating New York's e-stop law for failing to disclose a Facebook account.