People v. Wardlow

In People v. Wardlow (1991) 227 Cal.App.3d 360, the appellate court upheld a probation condition prohibiting the defendant (who pleaded guilty to child molestation) from contacting two brothers who had histories of child molestation. (Wardlow, supra, 227 Cal.App.3d at pp. 364, 367.) The Wardlow court held: "Conditions of probation prohibiting an individual from associating with other persons including spouses and close relatives, who have been involved in criminal activity have generally been upheld when reasonably related to rehabilitation or reducing future criminality." (Id. at p. 367.) The court explained that "keeping the defendant from associating with other child molesters was reasonably related to rehabilitation and future criminality, particularly since the defendant, himself, believed he had become a child molester because his brother had molested him. The condition was not overbroad; the court tailored the condition narrowly to include only those family members who were child molesters. We find no abuse in the imposition of this condition." (Ibid.)