Faulds v. United States

ORDER

James Faulds is serving a 360-month sentence for possessing and distributing child pornography. In this collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2266, Faulds argues that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in his direct appeal. The district court denied Faulds’s motion to vacate, correct, or set aside his sentence. Because Faulds identifies no prejudice from his appellate counsel’s assistance, we affirm.

I

In July 2006 an undercover investigator downloaded 12 still images and one video that Faulds had made available in an Internet chatroom. The downloaded images depict the sexual…