United States v. Lee R. Johnson

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Dr. Lee R. Johnson (Johnson), appealed following a bench trial in which he was convicted upon one count of transmitting obscene materials through the mails in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252, and fifteen counts of receiving obscene materials through the mails in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1461.

Johnson, an associate professor of history at Memphis State University, is a self-confessed pedophile. Beginning in the mid-1970’s and continuing until October of 1985, Johnson acquired and maintained a sizeable collection of pedophilic materials which included:…