United States Sixth Circuit

Defendant's child pornography sentence is vacated where: 1) uploading images to a website constitutes "trafficking" under U.S.S.G. section 2G2.2; and 2) section 3B1.2's "minor participant" reduction may apply in a pornography trafficking matter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2009
• Published 02/26/2009

Judges

• Before GIBBONS and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges;  SHADUR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jeffery S. Crampton, Koernke & Crampton, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Appellant.  B. Rene Shekmer, Assistant United States Attorney, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Jeffery S. Crampton, Koernke & Crampton, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Appellant.  Andrew Byerly Birge, Assistant United States Attorney, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Appellee.