United States v. Shannon

In 2007, Shannon pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and was sentenced to 46 months’ imprisonment and lifetime supervised release. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. In 2010, Shannon was released and began supervised release. In 2011, the district court found that Shannon had violated the conditions by possessing a web camera without previously notifying his probation officer, and sentenced Shannon to 28 days of incarceration. In 2015, the probation office notified the court that Shannon had temporarily uninstalled the monitoring software on his computer, viewed legal adult pornography, encrypted digital files, possessed external storage devices, and installed “scrubbing” software. The court found that Shannon had done so and was not compliant with his release conditions, but declined to revoke his supervised release. At a subsequent a modification hearing, the parties disputed Special Condition 2, intended to require Shannon to notify the probation office before using certain electronic devices. The district court reasoned that Condition 2 was “related to the offense of conviction which involves the sexual exploitation of minors from a computer in [Shannon’s] home and will protect the public. [Shannon’s] demonstrated non‐compliance with external storage devices indicates he is at a continued risk to reoffend.” The Seventh Circuit affirmed, finding the condition justified. View "United States v. Shannon" on Justia Law