United States Tenth Circuit

In a "virtual" child pornography case, defendant failed to prove ineffective assistance of counsel based on counsel's failure to inform defendant of potential distinctions between actual and virtual child pornography before entering his guilty plea.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2004
• Published 06/11/2004

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, ANDERSON, and HENRY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Friedman,Appellate Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Robert G. McCampbell, United States Attorney, and Edward J. Kumiega, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Oklahoma, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee., Vicki Mandell-King, Assistant Federal Public Defender (and Raymond P. Moore, Federal Public Defender, on the briefs), Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellant.