Limits on post-prison supervision
Garry Lebron Hayes v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Garry Lebron Hayes challenges a Sixth Circuit ruling about a one-year supervised-release ban on contacting any member of Congress for any reason.
- Who it affects
- Hayes will not get Supreme Court review in this case; the Court did not resolve the legal question.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The appeals court said the ban exceeded statutory limits and burdened Hayes’s right to petition Congress, but refused to correct it because the error was not “plain” (clear under current law), citing the lack of a similar earlier case and the violation’s severity.
The Sixth Circuit said the ban went beyond what federal law allowed and burdened Hayes’s right to petition Congress, but declined to correct it under rules for mistakes not raised earlier.
Question presented
Whether a court of appeals may hold that a condition squarely violated a statutory limit but still say the error was not “plain” because the violation was not severe enough?
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