Opinion ID: 6335251
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Heading: Condition two (mental-health medication)

Text: First, Hernandez challenges the condition that she take all prescribed mental health medications and pay for them if able. In a recent unpublished opinion, we explained that such a condition is a “new, burdensome restriction” that should be removed from the judgment if the district court failed to pronounce it. United States v. Yarbrough, 830 F. App’x 437, 438 (5th Cir. 2020) (per curiam). Here, the district court did not pronounce this specific condition. The court’s pronouncement, as well as the PSR, referenced only the requirement that Hernandez participate in a “mental health treatment program,” not that she take and pay for all prescribed medications. Consequently, Hernandez lacked the opportunity to object to this discretionary condition. The district court abused its discretion by imposing it. See ibid. (vacating condition that defendant take prescribed 4 Case: 21-40161 Document: 00516296003 Page: 5 Date Filed: 04/26/2022 No. 21-40161 medications because “the district court never pronounced that requirement at sentencing and it was not in any documents available to him”) (cleaned up); see also United States v. Brown, 855 F. App’x 176, 179–80 (5th Cir. 2021)