United States v. Glenn

Chas Glenn appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Hall, C.J.), revoking his supervised release. The district *847court concluded that Glenn committed “another federal, state or local offense” in violation of the conditions of his supervised release, based solely on Glenn’s pleas of guilty to state drug offenses entered under the Alford1 doctrine. Because an Alford plea, under Connecticut law, constitutes an acknowledgment of the strength of the state’s evidence, the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding, by a preponderance of…