United States v. Jesse Smith

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In an opinion reported at U.S. v. Smith, 770 F.3d 653 (7th Cir.2014), we considered the appeal of Jesse Smith from a sentence of 15 months in prison imposed on him by Judge Darrow for violating conditions of supervised release. While remarking that the defendant’s current profile was not that of a dangerous criminal and expressing doubt about the utility of his continued imprisonment, we indicated that we would have affirmed Judge Darrov/s judgment had we not discovered in the record a document (called a Violation Memorandum), mentioned by neither party, dated February…