Legal Opinion
United States v. Wachowiak
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2007No. 06-1643PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Judge Adelman sentenced 24-year-old Robert Wachowiak to 70 months’ imprisonment for downloading and electronically “sharing” child pornography on his home computer. Wachowiak’s sentence is considerably less than his advisory guidelines range of 121 to 151 months, and the government submits it is unreasonably low in light of the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). In addition to discounting the seriousness of Wachowiak’s offense, the government argues, the judge deviated from the sentencing guidelines on the basis of mitigating factors routinely present in child…
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