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Document DOJ-OGR-00020218

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Summary: The court is releasing Mr. Robertson under extremely strict conditions, including home incarceration with GPS tracking, limited contact with others, and no access to phones or visitors, to ensure his appearance and community safety. The court believes these conditions will mitigate any danger or flight risk. Mr. Robertson will be closely supervised at La Pasada Halfway House.
Significance: This document is potentially important because it outlines the court's reasoning and conditions for granting Mr. Robertson release, highlighting the strict measures in place to ensure community safety and prevent flight.
Key Topics: conditions of release for Mr. Robertson safety of the community risk of flight
Key People:
  • Mr. Robertson - defendant
  • N.F. - alleged victim or witness
Document Type
Court Filing
Date
February 4, 2021
Pages
1
Folder
IMAGES007

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is not a valid reason to deny Mr. Robertson release because the government has not come forward with any details to corroborate N.F.'s account or to link Mr. Robertson to the alleged contact. More importantly, the Court has imposed a number of extremely strict and carefully tailored conditions of release that it believes will be more than sufficient to reasonably assure Mr. Robertson's appearance and the safety of the community. Mr. Robertson will be placed at La Pasada Halfway House, where he will be on home incarceration with active GPS tracking, the strictest form of location monitoring available to the Court. Doc. 301 at 2. He will not be allowed to leave La Pasada for any reason other than to meet with his attorneys, and he will not be allowed to transport himself to those meetings; his attorneys will have to transport him. Id. He will not be allowed any visitors at La Pasada except for his attorneys. Id. He will not be allowed to use or possess a cellphone, nor to borrow anyone else's cellphone. Id. He will not be allowed to use the landline at La Pasada, except to speak to his attorneys. Id. He will not be allowed to have contact with anyone other than his Pretrial Services officer and his attorneys. Id. That includes no contact with his family members until he shows the Court that he is fully compliant with all of his conditions of release. Id. He will not be allowed to use or possess drugs or alcohol. Id. He will be allowed to participate in counseling at La Pasada to help him cope with the stress of his looming trial. Id. He will be required to abide by all rules and regulations of the halfway house, however small. Id. The Court believes that with all of these conditions, and under the close supervision of the staff at La Pasada and his Pretrial Services officer, Mr. Robertson will not pose a danger to the community or a risk of flight. The Court also cautioned Mr. Robertson at the February 4, 2021 pretrial conference that if he violates any of these conditions of release, the Court will not hesitate to reincarcerate him immediately. The Court accordingly finds that there are conditions, or a 10 DOJ-OGR-00020218