United States v. Carpenter, No. 11-2571 (6th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseCarpenter pled guilty to the charge of failing to appear for sentencing (18 U.S.C. 3146(a)(1)). The district court sentenced him to 13 months’ imprisonment and two years of supervised release. At the sentencing hearing, the court did not orally pronounce the conditions of supervision, and Carpenter’s counsel raised no objection to the imposed sentence. On the same day, in a written judgment, the court outlined conditions of supervised release. Special Condition 1 provides: The defendant shall participate in a program of testing and treatment for substance abuse, as directed by the probation officer, until such time as the defendant is released from the program by the probation officer, and shall pay a portion of the cost according to his ability, as determined by the probation officer. Rejecting a claim that the condition constituted an impermissible delegation of judicial authority, the Sixth Circuit affirmed.
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