Legal Opinion
United States v. Christopher Horton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 21, 2014No. 14-1559PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
Christopher Horton, a karate instructor who used his iPhone to film himself sexually molesting three of his young students, pleaded guilty to six counts of sexually exploiting a child. See 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). Horton’s guidelines range was life, subject to a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years on each count. See id. § 2251(e). The district court imposed a 90-year prison sentence, which Horton argues is substantively unreasonable. Because Horton has failed to rebut the presumption of reasonableness afforded to his within-guidelines sentence, we affirm.
During a 9-month period while Horton…
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