United States v. George R. Sotelo

How courts have described this case

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• declaring that the court had no power to prohibit an imprisoned defendant from communicating with the general public, but expressly stating that the question of whether the court had the power to prohibit the defendant from contacting his victim was not before the court
• denying defense of duress to inmates who failed to seek protection from prison authorities
• declaring that the court had no power to prohibit an imprisoned defendant from communicating with the general public, but expressly stating that the question of whether the court had the power to prohibit the defendant from contacting his victim was not before the court
• denying defense of duress to inmates who failed to seek protection from prison authorities
• “Although the district court did not have the authority to impose the blanket communication restriction at issue in this case, the court certainly had the option to recommend that the [BOP] impose such a restriction.”
• construing improperly imposed condition as a recommendation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).