United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's child pornography conviction and sentence are affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 2251(a) applies regardless of whether the violation occurred on American soil or abroad, so long as the behavior has a sufficient nexus with the U.S.; and 2) the District Court did not abuse its discretion in refusing an evidentiary hearing on the search warrant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/01/2009
• Published 06/01/2009

Judges

• HOOD, District Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and HOOD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert C. McBurney, John Andrew Horn, Atlanta, GA, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald F. Samuel, Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.