United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for permitting his minor child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography is affirmed where: 1) there was nothing irrational about Congress's conclusion that failure to regulate the intrastate production of child pornography, by punishing parents who permitted their minor children to participate in the production of child pornography, would undermine its regulation of the interstate child pornography market; 2) the cameras used to produce, and the memory card used to store, the images of child pornography had traveled in interstate commerce; and 3) defendant's separation of powers argument was foreclosed by binding precedent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2010
• Published 04/27/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before BLACK, PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Adam Scott Tanenbaum, Fed. Pub. Def., Tampa, FL, for Paige., Peter J. Sholl, Tampa, FL, for U.S.