Legal Opinion
United States v. Garthus
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 14, 2011No. 10-3097PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant pleaded guilty to federal crimes of transporting, receiving, and pos sessing child pornography and was sentenced to 360 months in prison. 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(l)J (a)(2)(A), (a)(5)(B). The guidelines sentencing range was 360 months to life; the statutory minimum sentence was 180 months; he was 44 years old when sentenced. His appeal challenges his sentence on several grounds, of which the one most emphasized by defense counsel is that the district court improperly failed to consider her argument that the defendant had had “diminished capacity” to avoid…
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