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Every decision we've filed under Child Sexual Abuse Material.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the sentence imposed on Jeffrey Alan Guentert for receipt of child pornography. The court found no non-frivolous issues for appeal outside the scope of the defendant's plea agreement waiver.
The First Circuit affirmed the denial of a motion to suppress evidence of child pornography found in a defendant's home. The court held that a search warrant based on nine-month-old data was not stale and established probable cause.
The Sixth Circuit reversed a district court denial of a preliminary injunction, ruling that a school board president violated the First Amendment by silencing a speaker. The court found the board engaged in viewpoint discrimination and ratified a heckler's veto by cutting off the speaker's microphone in response to crowd hostility.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the sentence of Jeffrey Gray for possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of a minor. The court rejected Gray's arguments regarding sentencing enhancements and supervised release conditions.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed Rayford Evans's conviction for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. The court held that exigent circumstances justified the warrantless seizure of his phone and that the trial evidence was sufficient to support the verdict.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a sentence of one hundred eighty months in prison for a defendant convicted of receiving and distributing child pornography. The court rejected arguments regarding a sentencing enhancement and the substantive reasonableness of the term.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the conviction of a defendant who attempted to entice a minor using the internet. The court found sufficient evidence that the defendant was not entrapped and that the admission of prior search history was proper.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a defendant's supervised release revocation and sentence. The court rejected the defendant's claims that the sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a thirty-year sentence imposed on a defendant convicted of child pornography offenses. The panel rejected arguments that the sentence was substantively unreasonable due to the consideration of pending state charges and the defendant's age and health.
The Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal by a defendant challenging conditions of his supervised release. The court held that a plea agreement waiver barred the appeal because the challenge did not concern a sentence exceeding the statutory maximum.