Legal Opinion
United States v. Rod M. Sharpley
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 16, 2005No. Docket 04-2934-CR, 04-2935-CRPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLER, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Rod Sharpley pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child for production of visual material in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). 1 In his plea agreement, Sharpley reserved the right to appeal two issues: 1) whether the enactment of the statute governing the child pornography counts, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, was an invalid exercise of congressional power under the Commerce Clause of the federal Constitution, and 2) whether the previous state…
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