United States v. Holt

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Bart Linden Holt appeals his sentence following his guilty plea conviction for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) and possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm the district court’s sentence.

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On December 7, 2004, as part of an undercover operation, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Daniel Vier-thaler posed as a thirteen-year-old girl in an Internet chat room. Holt, a then forty-five-year-old podiatrist,…