Opinion ID: 2765320
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Seriously Affects Judicial Proceeding

Text: Finally, Mr. Burns has shown that the error “‘seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.’” United States v. Rosales-Miranda, 755 F.3d 1253, 1262 (10th Cir. 2014) (quoting United States v. Figueroa-Labrada, 720 F.3d 1258, 1266 (10th Cir. 2013)). As discussed above, the district court likely would have softened the contact restrictions if the issue had been raised. As a result, the error seriously affected the fairness and integrity of the proceedings. See United States v. Doyle, 711 F.3d 729, 736 (6th Cir. 2013) (holding that the imposition of special conditions of supervised release for a sex offender, without the required findings, affected the “fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the proceedings because these conditions were likely more severe than the ones the district court would have imposed had it fulfilled its obligation to explain its reasoning for imposing any special conditions”). Because the error undermines the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings, we conclude that Mr. Burns has satisfied the final prong of plain-error review.