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Date Created: 2023-06-14 18:00:35.996876+00
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Case: 22-40722        Document: 00516786129             Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/14/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                    United States Court of Appeals
                                                                             Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-40722
                                    Summary Calendar
                                                                           FILED
                                                                       June 14, 2023
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                                                                      Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                               Clerk

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Andrian Page,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
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                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Southern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 3:18-CR-15-1
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   Before Wiener, Elrod, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
         Defendant-Appellant Andrian Page pleaded guilty to sexual
   exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography, receipt of child
   pornography, and possession of child pornography. Page appeals one of his
   supervised release conditions that he not possess or use “computers or other
   electronic communications or data storage devices or media, without the

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         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-40722      Document: 00516786129           Page: 2    Date Filed: 06/14/2023

                                     No. 22-40722

   prior approval of the probation officer.” He challenges the notion that this
   condition requires him to seek approval for each individual instance that he
   accesses a computer.
          Our review is for plain error because Page did not object to this
   condition before the district court. United States v. Fields, 777 F.3d 799, 802
   (5th Cir. 2015). He must show a forfeited error that is clear or obvious and
   that affects his substantial rights. See Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129,
   135 (2009). If he makes such a showing, this court has the discretion to
   correct the error only if it “seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public
   reputation of judicial proceedings.” Id. (internal quotation marks, alteration,
   and citation omitted).
          We have held that special conditions requiring a defendant to obtain
   prior approval for each use of an electronic device to access the internet are
   unreasonably restrictive. United States v. Naidoo, 995 F.3d 367, 374 (5th Cir.
   2021); United States v. Sealed Juvenile, 781 F.3d 747, 756-57 (5th Cir. 2015).
   The Government agrees that such an interpretation is improper and counter
   to how the condition is written, and requests that we affirm the condition
   with instructions that “prior approval” does not require individual approval
   for each specific instance of computer use. See Naidoo, 995 F.3d at 374. We
   have previously done so in similar cases. See id. at 384; Sealed Juvenile, 781
   F.3d at 758; United States v. Clark, 784 F. App’x 190, 191 (5th Cir. 2019);
   United States v. Melton, 753 F. App’x 283, 288-89 (5th Cir. 2018).
          We AFFIRM the condition of prior approval subject to the
   interpretation that such condition does not require Page to seek approval
   prior to each use of a computer or other covered device or media.

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