United States v. Raymond Binney

Following a guilty plea, Raymond Bin-ney appeals his conviction and 180-month sentence for receiving and distributing child pornography. See 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2). He argues that the district court erred by (1) accepting his unknowing and involuntary guilty plea and (2) imposing a procedurally and substantively unreasonable sentence. We affirm.

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Binney used the online file-sharing program Gigatribe to exchange child pornography, and a private email account to distribute it. Online file sharing systems allow users to download files from the shared folder of other users’ computers. See United…