Legal Opinion

United States v. Lacey

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 12, 2009No. 08-2515PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Steven Lane Lacey pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). The district court sentenced him to 108 months’ imprisonment. Lacey appeals, challenging both his conviction and his sentence. We affirm.

I

While investigating two Yahoo groups transmitting images of child pornography over the internet, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents traced one of the images to 47-year-old Stephen Lane Lacey, who posted the image of a nude prepubescent female engaged in oral sex with an adult male. When the agents interviewed Lacey at his…

2Cases cited25 opinions

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  5. United States v. Kenneth L. BellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995

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