United States v. Grober

OPINION

KATHARINE S. HAYDEN, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Pronouncing sentence on David Grober has required this Court to look long and hard at the sentencing guidelines and the truly remarkable punishment the government seeks under them. The ultimate tension for a sentencing judge is between a mechanical application of the sentencing guidelines on the one hand, and a fair, reasonable sentence that does justice on the other. The crime of conviction in this case is David Grober’s downloading of child pornography from the internet, having accessed images of child pornography through file-sharing…