Sentencing Enhancements

Feb 17, 2020

Criminal Law: Search Warrant-Probable Cause-Sentencing Enhancements

Where a defendant, who was convicted of conspiring to defraud the country and assisting in the filing of a false tax return, challenged the denial of his motion to suppress, probable cause existed to support a warrant to search the defendant’s tax return business, and even though a prosecutor’s argument about misidentification was improper, the […]

Jan 2, 2019

Criminal: Sexual Exploitation-Sufficiency of Evidence-Sentencing Enhancements

Where a defendant challenged his convictions for sexual exploitation of a child and production of child pornography, the defendant did not show that the government failed to identify the victim and ample evidence connected him to a camera that held photos of the victim, so the evidence was sufficient to support the convictions, and the […]

Feb 23, 2018