Walker

United States v. Walker

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176 F. App'x 824
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 18, 2006No. 05-50459California538 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Defendant Jeffrey Douglas Walker appeals from the district court’s revocation of his supervised release and his sentence of 30 days custody, 90 days home confinement, and reinstatement of the terms of his supervised release including the condition prohibiting any use of alcohol. We affirm.

Walker was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in 1994 in the District of Minnesota. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and five years of supervised release. The district court judge there imposed standard conditions of supervised release, including a prohibition on the excessive use of alcohol, as well as a special condition requiring Walker to participate in a drug testing and treatment program approved by the United States Probation Office.

Walker’s case was later transferred to the Central District of California, where Walker’s probation officer, with Walker’s knowledge and consent, modified the Minnesota standard supervised release condition prohibiting “excessive use” of alcohol, to the Central District of California standard supervised release conditions for drug offenders prohibiting “any use” of alcohol.

The Probation…

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