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Fourth Circuit: Conditions of Release Banning Internet Access and Legal Pornography Overbroad and Not Reasonably Related

Loaded on March 15, 2021 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News April, 2021, page 39
Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, Conditions of, Access to Computers/Internet, Possession of Pornography. Location: North Carolina.

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina’s special conditions of release that banned legal pornography and all internet access were overbroad and not reasonably related to the objectives of 18 U.S.C. § ...

 

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