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Criminal Law: Child Pornography-Appeal Waiver-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence
Staff Report//June 17, 2026//
Defendant appealed the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to a child pornography offense pursuant to a plea agreement containing an appeal waiver, challenging the substantive reasonableness of the sentence and the condition of supervised release prohibiting him from possessing a computer.
Where the appeal wavier was valid and enforceable, the court was constrained to dismiss the appeal.
Appeal is dismissed.
U.S. v. Luepker (MLW No. 84941/Case No. 25-3003 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Pitlyk, J.
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