· 11/1/2023
Chapman v. Harim USA
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- upholding against vagueness challenge condition barring defendant from “loiter[ing] in any place where children congregate”
- upholding against vagueness challenge condition barring defendant from “loiter[ing] in any place where children congregate”
- upholding against vagueness challenge condition barring defendant from “loiter[ing] in any place where children congregate”
- construing probation term imposing associational restrictions including not loitering near places where minors congregate as not extending to incidental, unintentional, inadvertent, or chance contact with minors and finding support in survey of case law
- finding a ban not “reasonably related” to the defendant’s conviction for prostituting a minor because “restrictions on computer or internet access are not categorically appropriate in cases where the defendant did not use them to facilitate his crime”
- if their failure to seek funding under the CJA “reflected ignorance of the law, rather than a reasonable strategic decision… then the [attorneys’] performance must be deemed deficient.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Scott J.
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