William A. Sweeney v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that a probation condition is unreasonable if it is impossible to obey because the probationer has no power of volition and hence cannot abide by the condition
• finding no-alcohol condition unreasonable when probationer's chronic alcoholism destroyed his volition and prevented his compliance with condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).