Legal Opinion
United States v. Peel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 12, 2010No. 07-3933PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was convicted by a jury of bankruptcy fraud, obstruction of justice, and possession of child pornography, and was sentenced to 144 months in prison. His appeal challenges both the convictions and the sentence.
The events giving rise to this case go back a long way. In 1967 the defendant married. Seven years later he began an affair with his wife’s 16-year-old sister. In the course of the affair, which lasted several months, he took nude photographs of her that the jury found were sexually explicit within the meaning of the child-pornography statute; he does…
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