Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Ellison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 18, 1997No. 96-2891PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
Ellison pled guilty to knowing receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2), a charge that arose from Ellison’s unwitting participation in a federal sting operation designed to entice targets into buying illegal pornographic materials through the mails. The district court sentenced Ellison to a prison term of 33 months, based in part on the application of Sentencing Guideline § 2G2.2, which set his base offense level at 15. The sentence also included an enhancement for Ellison’s possession of a stack of pornographic magazines depicting minors…
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