United States Eighth Circuit

District court's enhanced sentencing of a defendant convicted of receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography under the sentencing Guidelines was not in error where: 1) the defendant used LimeWire, a file-sharing software, to download and share child pornography: and 2) the sentence was not unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2009
• Published 08/27/2009

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before COLLOTON, JOHN R. GIBSON, and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Murray W. Bell, Davenport, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel W. Barrows, AUSA, and Shannon Olson, AUSA, Des Moines, IA, for appellee.