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· 12/2/2013

Gonzalez-Corella v. United States

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 710
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 571
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3329
  • 571 U.S. 1083
  • 2013 WL 5775670
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 8726

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that district courts may impose conditions prohibiting possession of otherwise-legal pornography so long as the courts justify the condition under the statutory sentencing factors
  • noting that courts have upheld special conditions restricting access to “pornography” or “sexually explicit materials” when a defendant has been convicted of possessing child pornography
  • holding, in the context of reviewing a special condition of supervised release, that the First Amendment generally protects even the substantially broader “right to possess sexually explicit material involving adults”
  • discussing how courts have upheld special conditions restricting access to pornography when a defendant was convicted of possessing child pornography
  • examining whether the record justified the imposition - of special conditions in the absence of an adequate individualized assessment
  • “When . . . neither the Sentencing Commission nor Congress has required or recommended a condition, we expect the sentencing court to provide a reasoned basis for applying the condition to the specific defendant before the court.”

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