Legal Opinion
United States v. Shawn Gementera
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 9, 2004No. 03-10103PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide the legality of a supervised release condition that requires a convicted mail thief to spend a day standing outside a post office wearing a signboard stating, “I stole mail. This is my punishment.”
I
Shawn Gementera pilfered letters from several mailboxes along San Francisco’s Fulton Street on May 21, 2001. A police officer who observed the episode immediately detained Gementera and his partner in crime, Andrew Choi, who had been stuffing the stolen letters into his jacket as Gementera anxiously kept watch. After indictment, Gementera entered a plea…
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