United States v. Jonathan Oliver

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 21-30137 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 9:13-cr-00034-DWM-

JONATHAN LEE OLIVER, OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 9, 2022 Seattle, Washington

Filed July 22, 2022

Before: Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Eric D. Miller, and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bumatay SUMMARY *

Criminal Law

The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment revoking supervised release based on the defendant’s committing a new crime, and the sentence imposed upon revocation.

The district court revoked the defendant’s supervised release for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a) by submitting a monthly supervision report with false statements to his probation officer. Section 1001(a) bars lying “in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States.” The defendant argued that because the report was eventually…