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U.S. v. Raby, No. 2:05-cr-00003 (S.D.W.Va.) (2009 WL 5173964) (December 30, 2009) (Judge Joseph R. Goodwin)

Loaded on Jan. 11, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists January 11, 2010
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Lack of Empirical Support for Guidelines Sentence.

Here the Court attacked as nonsensical the rigid application of U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(7), which require automatic sentence increases as the number of pornographic images increase, which it said violates the mandates of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).

This is another child pornography possession case in which the defendant, Bernard Raby, pled ...

 

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