United States v. Thomas Sales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supervised release condition that did not indicate “what kinds or degrees of [computer] monitoring are authorized” “is overbroad”
• holding that a supervised release condition barring use of “any particular computer, or computer-related device” was overbroad because Sales used only “a scanner, computer, and printer to counterfeit currency”
• holding that “[a] computer monitoring condition in some form may be reasonable[,]” but generally requiring installation of search and/or monitoring software was overbroad and remand needed for “further tailoring and clarification”
• holding that condition of supervised release was overbroad and remanding because “the district court, in consultation with the probation officer, is better suited to the job of crafting adequate but not overly restrictive conditions of supervised release”
• striking condition requiring the defendant to “seek and obtain approval from his probation officer before using any particular computer or computer-related device”
• vacating a computer monitoring condition as unconstitutionally vague in a case involving counterfeiting where there was no link between the Internet and the underlying crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).