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Criminal Law: Distributing Child Pornography-Within-Guidelines Sentence-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence

Staff Report//September 5, 2019//

Criminal Law: Distributing Child Pornography-Within-Guidelines Sentence-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence

Staff Report//September 5, 2019//

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Defendant pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. The district court sentenced defendant to a prison term within the guidelines range. On appeal, defendant challenged whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence.

Where the district court committed no abuse of discretion during sentencing, it did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Norris (MLW No. 73734/Case No. 18-3684 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Ketchmark, J.

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