Legal Opinion
United States v. Frank Burns
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2016No. 15-2660PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Frank Todd Burns pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). The district court 1 sentenced him to 97 months in prison. Burns appeals the sentence, arguing the court abused its discretion by imposing unwarranted sentencing enhancements under U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(4)-(6), resulting in a substantively unreasonable sentence within his advisory guidelines range. We affirm.
I
On appeal, Burns first argues generally that the district court abused its discretion by relying on “child pornography guidelines” in § 2G2.2 that “deserve…
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