United States v. Thomas Alonzo Bolin (2nd Cir. September 2020)
Computer Crimes, Second Circuit, Supervised Release
|The Second Circuit vacated a defendant’s supervised release condition and remanded for resentencing holding that a condition of release prohibiting him from online speech promoting or endorsing violence was unconstitutionally vague and violated defendant’s right to free speech under the First Amendment. The Court held that language in the condition defining “violence” included open-ended language allowing the condition to be applied without limits.