United States v. Gregory Sofsky

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• holding that “in the sentencing context there are circumstances that permit us to relax the otherwise rigorous standards of plain error review to correct sentencing errors”
• concluding that in the sentencing context there are circumstances that permit a court to relax the otherwise rigorous standards of plain error review to correct sentencing errors
• holding that ban on access to computers, the Internet and bulletin board systems without approval by a probation officer was a greater deprivation on defendant's liberty than reasonably necessary where defendant possessed and traded child pornography over the Internet
• noting that internet bans were upheld in cases where defendant used the internet to distribute child pornography that he had produced and where defendant used the internet to contact a minor
• collecting cases where the court corrected unobjected-to sentencing errors without 4 1 requiring a showing of plain error
• relaxing the “rigorous 17 standards of plain error review” to correct an unobjected‐to sentencing 18 error of which the defendant did not have advance notice

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