Opinion ID: 196262
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Text: 2 In August 1991, Whalen was convicted in federal court of various firearms offenses and sentenced to a two-year prison term, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. The supervised release term began in April 1993. 1 One of the conditions of the release was that Whalen not commit any new crimes, whether state, federal, or local. 3 On October 26, 1994, the defendant was arrested in New York on state charges resulting from a violent domestic dispute with his wife Christina Whalen and her children. Consequently, a petition to revoke Whalen's supervised release was filed. The petition alleged that Whalen had violated New York penal law by (1) threatening his wife and her children; (2) physically assaulting his wife; and (3) attempting to contact his wife in violation of a state court order, issued following his arrest, directing him not to do so. 4 After an evidentiary hearing at which the government presented, inter alia, sworn statements by Christina Whalen attesting to the assault, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Archie Whalen had committed the acts alleged and ordered that his release be revoked.