United States v. Ford, No. 14-3452 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAfter pleading guilty to a drug offense in 2001, Ford was sentenced to a term of imprisonment followed by supervised release. While on supervised release, he committed an act of prostitution and other violations of the conditions of release, and, in 2013, he was sentenced to new terms of imprisonment and supervised release. In 2014 Ford allegedly committed a substantial battery while serving his second term of supervised release. After holding a revocation hearing, the district court found that Ford had committed the battery and had again violated the conditions of his supervised release. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting arguments that the court violated Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) and the Due Process Clause by allowing the government to introduce statements by a witness, as contained in the police report; that 18 U.S.C. 583(e)(3) and (h) dictate that his statutory maximum sentence is one year, so that his 36- month sentence exceeded the maximum; and that the district court committed procedural error by not adequately examining the relevant factors listed in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) at sentencing.
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