What are the consequences of a district court's failure to articulate the reasons for imposing a special condition of supervised release?

2020).¹ "A district court must ordinarily conduct an individualized assessment into the necessity of a special condition of supervised release," and "unless obvious from the record," a court's failure to articulate its reasons for imposing the special condition is error. United States v. Bleau, 930 F.3d 35, 43 (2d Cir. 2019).

Weiskopf objected at sentencing to the conditions relating to contact with minors and verification testing, so we review the district court's imposition of those conditions for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Parisi, 821 F.3d 343, 346-47 (2d Cir. 2016) (per curiam). Weiskopf did not object to the alcohol and risk-notification conditions, so we review the district court's imposition of those conditions for plain error. See United States v. Matta, 777 F.3d 116, 121 (2d Cir. 2015).