Legal Opinion
United States v. Benton Stong
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 10, 2014No. 14-1337PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
After law enforcement officers found images and videos containing child pornography in his apartment, Benton Stong was convicted on one count of sexual exploitation of a minor and four counts of possession of child pornography. The district court 1 sentenced Stong to 1,320 months, or 110 years, in prison. Stong appeals his convictions and sentence. For the reasons described below, we affirm.
I. Background
During the summer of 2012, four boys— ages ten, eleven, eleven, and twelve — visited and occasionally stayed with Stong at an apartment where he lived by himself. After…
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