U.S. v. BELLO

Docket No. 01-1682.

310 F.3d 56 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Edward BELLO, also known as Jason Hink, also known as Jerome Hink, also known as Joseph Fulano, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Statsinger, Of Counsel, Appeals Bureau, The Legal Aid Society, Federal Public Defender Division, Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for Appellant.

Joshua A. Goldberg, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (James B. Comey, United States Attorney, Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief), for Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, CABRANES, and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Edward Bello appeals from a sentence entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hellerstein, J.) insofar as it imposes as a condition of probation a bar on television-viewing during a ten-month period of home detention. We conclude that the imposition of the bar for the stated purpose of promoting self-reflection and remorse exceeds the district court's broad discretion. Because the television...

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