United States v. Bari

We consider whether the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Denny Chin, Judge) erred in considering during a supervised release revocation hearing information confirmed by its own Internet search. Defendant Anthony Bari appeals from the District Court’s March 11, 2009 judgment revoking Bari’s term of supervised release, imposed after an earlier conviction for bank robbery, and sentencing him principally to a term of thirty-six months’ imprisonment. During the supervised release revocation hearing, Judge Chin noted that his chambers “did a Google search” to confirm that…