Opinion ID: 149531
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Challenges to Additional Post-Revocation Conditions

Text: Finally, King challenges the district court's post-revocation imposition of two additional supervised release conditions: (1) the condition subjecting King and his property to search upon reasonable suspicion of a violation of supervision or of unlawful conduct, and (2) the condition prohibiting King from associating with inmates in state or local prisons. We review the district court's imposition of supervised release conditions for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Weber, 451 F.3d 552, 557 (9th Cir.2006). The district court has significant discretion and `wide latitude' to impose supervised release conditions reasonably related to, inter alia, the nature and circumstances of the offense, the defendant's history and characteristics, and the sentencing goals of deterring future offenses, protecting the public, and rehabilitating the defendant. Id. (citation omitted); see 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d). Here, in light of the multiple supervised release violations that the district court found King to have committed and his complete and obvious pattern of deception towards the district court and his probation officer, the imposition of the search condition was reasonably related to protecting the public and preventing recidivism. We thus hold that the district court's imposition of this condition was not an abuse of discretion. See United States v. Betts, 511 F.3d 872, 876 (9th Cir.2007) (imposition of search condition with no reasonable suspicion requirement was not abuse of discretion). Likewise, because of those same considerations, and also because of King's history of communicating with inmates in violation of more generally worded supervised release conditions, the district court's imposition of the nonassociation-with-inmates condition was reasonably related to King's offense and history and to deterring further offenses. United States v. Napulou, 593 F.3d 1041 (9th Cir.2010), cited by King, is not to the contrary. Napulou held that a condition forbidding association with persons with misdemeanor convictions was not reasonably related to rehabilitation or public safety because its sweep included many currently law-abiding individuals and many individuals who had committed only minor offenses. Id. at 1045-46. Here, by contrast, King's condition forbids association only with individuals currently imprisoned for any crime thereby tending to exclude minor misdemeanors (which rarely result in prison sentences) and law-abiding individuals with long-past convictions. [2]