United States Fourth Circuit

Sentence enhancement for conviction of receiving movies depicting actual female minors engaged in actual and simulated genital and oral sex with adult males, 18 U.S.C. section 2252A(a)(2), is upheld where defendant's prior conviction for "Production, Publication, Sale, or Possession, etc. of Obscene Items Involving Children" under Virginia Code section 18.2-374.1(B) categorically qualifies as the type of conviction Congress sought to include as a predicate conviction within 18 U.S.C. section 2252A(b)(1)'s broadly phrased sentencing enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2012
• Published 06/26/2012

Judges

• NIEMEYER

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel