Legal Opinion
United States v. Head
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 15, 2009No. 07-3619PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Jamile Head claims the district court improperly sentenced him to serve six months in a “residential reentry center” as a discretionary condition of his supervised release. We agree that the district court exceeded its authority in issuing this sentence because it disregarded the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d), which, at the time, specifically omitted this condition from a list of permissible discretionary conditions. Therefore, we vacate Head’s sentence and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. BACKGROUND
In 2004, Head pled guilty to…
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