United States v. David Johnson

OPINION

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether a district court may require a sexual offender assessment — not treatment, just an assessment — as a condition of supervised release when the defendant has two decades-old prior sexual offense convictions involving weapons, when the current offense also involves a weapon, and when the defendant’s prior completion of sex offender treatment cannot be confirmed. We conclude that it may require such an assessment and affirm the condition imposed in this case.

I. Background

Defendant David Louis Johnson pled guilty to knowing…