United States v. Williams

Williams, scheduled for release from prison in 2030 if he earns and retains all good-time credits, asked the district court to revise some conditions that will apply to supervised release when his sentence ends. The district court declined, deeming the application premature. District judges may revise terms of supervised release “at any time,” 18 U.S.C. 3583(e)(2)). The judge reasoned that, between now and Williams’s scheduled release, “he may have totally other issues that he might want to deal with regarding supervised release.” The Seventh Circuit affirmed, noting that the governing law may change in the next 14 years. The court stated that it “would be reluctant to allow a judge to deem premature a request in the final year or two of imprisonment,” but treating a request 14 years in advance as premature, and requiring the prisoner to make all potential arguments at one time in the year or so before release, is a sound exercise of discretion. View "United States v. Williams" on Justia Law