United States v. Jeffrey L. Green

EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Green appeals from the district court’s orders revoking his probation and denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence. He contends that (1) the conditioning of his probation on the payment of back taxes rendered his original sentence illegal and (2) the district court abused its discretion by revoking his probation.

In September 1981, Green pleaded guilty to one count of failing to file income tax returns for the years 1975-1977 in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7203. He received a one-year suspended sentence and three years probation, one condition of which was…