United States v. Donald Woodfield

MEMORANDUM

Donald George Woodfield (“Defendant”) appeals a judgment of the Central District of California finding him in violation of a supervised release condition prohibiting his unsupervised contact with persons under the age of eighteen and, alternatively, challenges the imposition of the condition as impermissibly vague and a greater deprivation of liberty than reasonably necessary under 18 U.S.C. § 3583 (d). Defendant also appeals the District Court’s post-revocation imposition of a condition requiring him to submit to a search at any time ■without a warrant. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we AFFIRM.

This Court reviews a sufficiency-of-the-evidenee challenge to a revocation of supervised release in the light most favorable to the government and determines whether any rational judge “could have found the essential elements of a violation by a preponderance of the evidence.” United States v. King, 608 F.3d 1122, 1129 (9th Cir.2010) (internal quotation marks omitted); United States v. Jeremiah, 493 F.3d 1042, 1045 (9th Cir.2007); see also 18 U.S.C. § 3583 (e)(3).

The District Court could have found Defendant in violation of his supervised release because…