United States v. Forrester

Judge RYAN

delivered the opinion of the Court,

We granted Appellant’s petition to review the following issue;

*481Whether punishing the same transaction of obtaining child pornography with four convictions unreasonably exaggerates Appellant’s criminality and triples his punitive exposure, constituting an unreasonable multiplication of charges.

Appellant was convicted of six specifications of possessing child pornography on four separate “materials” that contained child pornography, not the “same transaction of obtaining child pornography,” The offense of possessing child pornography under Article…