United States v. Rudolph Stanko

As a condition of his supervised release, Rudolph George Stanko was required to complete a PosNConviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) form given to him by his probation officer. The form instructed Stanko to respond, using a four-point scale ranging from “strongly agree” to “disagree,” to questions that had little relevance to the offenses he had been convicted of, 1 such as “[wjhen pressured by life’s problems I have said ‘the hell with it’ and followed this up by using drugs or engaging in crime,” and “I have justified selling drugs, burglarizing homes, or robbing banks by telling myself that if…