{"id":1779,"date":"2017-02-22T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:42:18","slug":"improper-delegation-supervised-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/supervised-release\/improper-delegation-supervised-release","title":{"rendered":"Delegation Of Judicial Authority To Probation Officer Over Supervised Release Conditions Improper"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\nAfter George Yarbrough was sentenced, the court included in its written judgment two special conditions of <a href=\"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/supervised-release\/reexamining-federal-supervised-release\">supervised release<\/a> that required the defendant to: \u201c\u2019participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/sentencing\/drug-treatment-improperly-considered\">vocational training program<\/a> as deemed necessary and approved by the probation officer\u2019 and \u2018participate in a mental health program as deemed necessary and approved by the probation officer.\u2019\u201d Yarbrough appealed arguing that these supervised release conditions, as written, amounted to an improper delegation of judicial authority. The Fifth Circuit reversed.\r\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe conclude that the district court abused its discretion by impermissibly delegating judicial authority to the probation officer as to whether Yarbrough would participate in a vocational training program,\u201d the court wrote. \u201cA court impermissibly delegates judicial authority when it gives a probation officer authority to decide whether a defendant will participate in a treatment program,\u201d the court held.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\nFor similar reasons, the appeals court also vacated the mental health condition. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/15\/15-20236.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States v. Yarbrough<\/a>, No. 15-20236\u00a0(5th Cir. 2017) (unpublished).\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After George Yarbrough was sentenced, the court included in its written judgment two special conditions of supervised release that required the defendant to: \u201c\u2019participate in a vocational training program as deemed necessary and approved by the probation officer\u2019 and \u2018participate in a mental health program as deemed necessary and approved by the probation officer.\u2019\u201d Yarbrough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Delegation of Judicial Authority | Supervised Released | Sentencing.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In United States v. 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