United States v. Mark Anthony Cooper

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion by imposing a condition on supervised release restricting defendant's employment as an over-the-road truck driver when this bore no relationship to the offense of unlawfully transporting explosive materials many years ago
• upholding the prohibition of the consumption of alcohol and the requirement that defendant obtain substance-abuse and mental-health counseling, where there was some evidence of alcohol and drug abuse and defendant had a history of mental instability
• broad use of occupational prohibitions is disfavored; imposition of prohibition was an abuse of discretion because the condition bore no relationship to offense of conviction
• “‘When it comes to controlled substances, unlike alcohol which can be consumed legally, a user is by definition an abuser.’” (quoting United States v. Simmons, 130 F.3d 1223, 1224 (7th Cir. 1997))

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