United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's child pornography possession sentence is affirmed, where the District Court properly enhanced Defendant's sentence based on 1) his incriminating statements to the FBI about the quantity of child pornography he possessed and 2) his use of a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to share the files with others.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2009
• Published 04/27/2009

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and REBECCA BEACH SMITH, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Thomas Norman Cochran, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Michael A. DeFranco, Office of the United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Anna Mills Wagoner, United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.