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Tag: conditions of supervised release
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Luke Wenke Appeal: Government Defends Involuntary Commitment
In this appellee brief, the U.S. government asks the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a federal judge’s April 2025 decision ordering Luke Wenke to undergo involuntary inpatient mental health treatment. The dispute followed Wenke’s federal cyberstalking conviction and multiple subsequent alleged supervised-release violations.…
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Document: Luke Wenke Contacts Victims While Detained for Similar Conduct
In late August of 2023, federal probation petitioned the U.S. District Court in Buffalo, New York for the addition of two new rules that they wanted Luke Wenke to follow. Firstly, Wenke’s P.O. wanted to ban him from contacting the family of Wenke’s uninterested romantic…
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Luke Wenke’s Alleged Probation Violations | 2023
On October 4th, 2023, Luke Wenke was arrested for allegedly violating federal probation. He had recently been found guilty of one previous violation charge, but was accused of continuing to contact his victims in violation of state-issued protective orders and federally-imposed contact bans. This time…
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Luke Wenke Appeal: Appellant’s Brief in Federal Case #25-1165
In this appellant’s brief, Luke Wenke challenges the federal district court’s decision ordering his involuntary commitment to a mental health facility. Filed in Appeal No. 25-1165, the brief argues that the evidence presented to the district court was insufficient to justify Wenke’s hospitalization, even if…
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Luke Wenke Appeal: Prosecution Urges Court to DENY Wenke’s Motion to Stay Involuntary Commitment
In June 2025, federal prosecutors opposed Luke Wenke’s request to delay his involuntary commitment while he appealed the district court’s treatment order. Wenke had been ordered in April 2025 to undergo involuntary mental health treatment at a suitable facility. His federal public defender sought to…
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Motion to Stay: Public Defender Insists Luke Wenke is NOT Delusional
Luke Wenke’s public defender challenged findings that Wenke suffered from delusions as part of the defense’s effort to oppose his involuntary commitment for mental health treatment. The dispute followed evaluations by forensic psychologist Dr. Corey Leidenfrost, who concluded that Wenke exhibited persistent grandiose, persecutory, and…
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Why Luke Wenke Was Denied Bail in Federal Court Following His Second Cyberstalking Arrest
Following Luke Wenke’s December 2025 arrest on a new federal cyberstalking charge, a judge ordered him detained without bail after finding that no condition or combination of release conditions would reasonably assure the safety of another person and the community. The December 22, 2025 Order…
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Prosecutors Seek Prison for Luke Wenke After Release Violation
During the summer of 2023, Luke Wenke was found guilty of violating the terms of his federal supervised release by contacting his cyberstalking victim’s business partner. More specifically, the judge determined that Wenke was responsible for a “vitriolic” email that had been sent to the…
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Luke Wenke Supervised Release Violation #1 | Court Briefs
In May of 2023 — just six weeks after his release from federal prison — Luke Wenke was arrested on a federal violation of supervised release (VOSR) charge for allegedly indirectly contacting his cyberstalking victim. More specifically, federal prosecutors accused Wenke of sending a vitriolic…
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Document: Luke Wenke Tried Forcing His Victims to Testify at a Probation Violation Hearing
In several of his letters to the court throughout 2023, Luke Wenke mentioned the prospect of me, his cyberstalking victim, and Brett — the father of his romantic obsession, Ryan — testifying against him at an upcoming probation violation hearing. This confused me, because the…
