Legal Opinion
United States v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 17, 2009No. 08-1477PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Larry G. Smith pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2) after law enforcement officers discovered more than 3,000 images of child pornography on Smith’s computer hard drives, which had been set up to share the images over the internet. The district court sentenced Smith to 240 months’ imprisonment. Smith appeals his sentence. We affirm.
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Larry Smith first came to the attention of law enforcement officials when an FBI agent entered an internet chat room devoted to preteen sexual pictures. Inside the chat room, the…
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