Filed: Aug. 08, 2013
Latest Update: Aug. 08, 2013
Summary: OPINION and ORDER CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, District Judge. This matter is before the court on Defendant's motion requesting termination of supervised release. ECF No. 412. The United States Probation Office does not oppose early termination of supervised release; the Government has indicated it defers to the position of the Probation Office. Title 18 United States Code Section 3583(e) provides that The court may, after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a)(1), (a)(2)(B), (a)(2)
Summary: OPINION and ORDER CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, District Judge. This matter is before the court on Defendant's motion requesting termination of supervised release. ECF No. 412. The United States Probation Office does not oppose early termination of supervised release; the Government has indicated it defers to the position of the Probation Office. Title 18 United States Code Section 3583(e) provides that The court may, after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a)(1), (a)(2)(B), (a)(2)(..
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OPINION and ORDER
CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on Defendant's motion requesting termination of supervised release. ECF No. 412. The United States Probation Office does not oppose early termination of supervised release; the Government has indicated it defers to the position of the Probation Office.
Title 18 United States Code Section 3583(e) provides that
The court may, after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a)(1), (a)(2)(B), (a)(2)(C), (a)(2)(D), (a)(4), (a)(5), (a)(6), and (a)(7)—
(1) terminate a term of supervised release and discharge the defendant released at any time after the expiration of one year of supervised release, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure relating to the modification of probation, if it is satisfied that such action is warranted by the conduct of the defendant released and the interest of justice . . . .
Considerations contained in § 3553 include, inter alia, the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant; the ability to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct; the need to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant; and the need to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner. 18 U.S.C. § 3553.
"The plain language of the statute illustrates that § 3583(e), in the typical case, allows a conduct-based inquiry into the continued necessity for supervision after the individual has served one full year on supervised release." United States v. Pregent, 190 F.3d 279, 282-83 (4th Cir. 1999). However, the statute
is not exclusively limited to considerations of conduct. The language of the statute notes that the district court `may' terminate supervised release `if it is satisfied that such action is warranted by the conduct of the defendant released and the interest of justice.' The phrase `the interest of justice' does give the district court latitude to consider a broad range of factors in addition to an individual's behavior in considering whether to terminate the supervised release period.
Id. at 283 (citation omitted).
Defendant has served almost two full years of his three-year period of supervised release and is in full compliance with its terms. Therefore, the court grants Defendant's motion for termination of supervision.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
