U.S. v. THOMPSON

No. 09-1926.

599 F.3d 595 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher R. THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 19, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Pedersen, Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Carol A. Brook, William H. Theis (argued), Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Barry Levenstam, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Sharmila Sohoni (argued), Jenner & Block, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae.

Before POSNER, ROVNER, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Christopher Thompson violated the conditions of his supervised release in late February 2009, and the district court held a revocation hearing in March of that year. Rule 32.1(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure establishes the procedures that apply in a supervised-release revocation hearing, and the judge followed these procedures—with one exception. Although Thompson, his attorney, and the prosecutor were present in the...

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