United States v. Herbert Lee Bass

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• noting in dicta that presence of large amounts of cash often serves to strengthen inference that defendant was distributing contraband
• vacating the defendant’s sentence and remanding the case to the district court with instructions that it eliminate the special conditions regarding the possession and use of alcohol that were imposed without any basis in the record
• vacating conditions barring defendant, who convicted of selling crack cocaine, from using alcohol, where there was no evidence of that the defendant abused alcohol or that alcohol played a role in the crime
• imposing special conditions forcing abstention from alcohol usage on defendant convicted of drug charge was abuse of discretion because no evidence of alcohol abuse existed and condition not reasonably related to goals of rehabilitation and protection of public
• discretionary conditions restricting possession or use of alcohol, authorizing tests for alcohol in body fluids, and authorizing warrantless search and seizure of alcohol in residence and vehicles
• special condition prohibiting obtaining or consuming alcohol and subjecting the defendant to random testing held invalid even though the defendant was convicted of conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute “crack” cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).