United States v. Ramos

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Zairo Ramos and three co-defendants were recorded on video engaging in sex acts with a fourteen-year-old girl. In defending at trial against a charge of aiding and abetting the production of child pornography, Ramos claimed unsuccessfully that he did not know the acts were being recorded. Invoking the insufficiency of the evidence, he presses that same argument on appeal, along with a claim that the trial judge deprived him of his right to call a key witness.

With respect to sentencing, Ramos contests the length of, and justification for, his prison term, and challenges…