United States of America v. Christopher Martinez

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with



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In 2010, Mr. Martinez pleaded guilty to one count of traveling in

interstate commerce with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a

juvenile female. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of sixty

months, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release.



Mr. Martinez began his term of supervised release in 2014. In 2020

and again in 2021, Mr. Martinez was "unsuccessfully discharged” from sex-

offender treatment programs and had his supervised release revoked for

engaging in deceptive behaviors. R. I at 22. He was sentenced to five months

in prison for the first revocation and ten months in prison for the second

revocation. His lifetime period of supervised release was continued on both

occasions.



In June 2022, Mr. Martinez was released from custody and reenrolled

in his prior sex-offender treatment program, Teaching Humane Existence

(THE). In August 2024, Mr. Martinez was "unsuccessfully discharged” from

THE due to violating rules and regulations outlined in his THE treatment

contracts. Id. This included failing to maintain a positive treatment

attitude, failing to complete homework assignments, failing to abide by the

requirements of his shared-living-arrangement agreement, utilizing an

unmonitored and unapproved internet-capable device, failing to attend an

adjunct mental health session, failing to comply with accountability

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standards at a process group session, and exhibiting a lack of transparency

with his community supervision team.



Following his discharge from THE, Mr. Martinez's probation officer

filed with the district court a petition for warrant alleging Mr. Martinez

violated the terms and conditions of his supervised release by (1) failing to

comply with the rules and regulations of THE, (2) failing to maintain

employment, and (3) making false statements to his probation officer about

his efforts to obtain day labor. Attached to the petition was a copy of a

discharge summary prepared by Mr. Martinez's primary therapist at THE.

At the conclusion of the hearing, the district court found by a

preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Martinez failed to comply with the

rules and regulations specified by THE and, by doing so, also violated the

conditions of his supervised release. Based upon these violations and the

other two violations admitted by Mr. Martinez, the district court revoked

Mr. Martinez’s supervised release and sentenced him to a term of

imprisonment of fourteen months, to be followed by a ten-year term of

supervised release.



Affirmed