Court Opinion

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United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
                                    ___________

                                    No. 04-3770
                                    ___________

United States of America,             *
                                      *
            Plaintiff-Appellee,       *
                                      * Appeal from the United States
      v.                              * District Court for the
                                      * Northern District of Iowa.
Gerald Leroy Vick, II,                *
                                      *     [PUBLISHED]
            Defendant-Appellant.      *
                                 ___________

                              Submitted: May 12, 2005
                                 Filed: August 16, 2005
                                  ___________

Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, LAY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
                         ___________

PER CURIAM.

       Defendant Gerald Vick pled guilty to possession of child pornography. The
district court sentenced Vick to thirty-three months in prison, the statutory maximum
under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, and three years of supervised release.
The district court refused to apply Blakely v. Washington, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), but
imposed an alternative discretionary sentence of fifty-one months in the event that the
guidelines were held unconstitutional in United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738
(2005). One of the conditions imposed upon Vick’s supervised release was that he
was to have no contact with children under the age of eighteen, including his
daughter, unless he was given prior written consent by his parole officer. Vick argues
that the district court abused its discretion by imposing a condition upon his
supervised release which forbids him from seeing his daughter without written
consent from his parole officer.

      We uphold the district court’s supervised release conditions. The special
condition that Vick have no contact with children under the age of eighteen without
the written consent of his probation officer was tailored to his extensive history with
minors, was reasonably related to the nature of seriousness of his offense, and was
needed to deter Vick and protect the public. See U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(b).

      Accordingly, the conditions imposed by the district court upon Vick’s
supervised release are AFFIRMED.
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