United States v. Jori Ferguson

I am pleased to join in full Judge Gregory’s opinion. I offer a few words of encouragement to our somewhat beleaguered district court colleagues.

As a former district judge myself, I am fully aware that supervised release revocation hearings are surely way down on the list of things that keep busy district judges and equally busy Assistant United States Attorneys up at night. Indeed, supervised release revocation hearings generally mean far more to the dedicated and equally busy Probation Officers who, as one once told me, view revocation hearings as “failures.” This is because they work with…