United States v. Barnett

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Tracy Alan Barnett, pled guilty to one count of possession of child pornography, see 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B), and one count of receiving child pornography, see id. § 2252(a)(2). The district court 1 imposed concurrent sentences of 240 months imprisonment to be followed by concurrent terms of ten years of supervised release. On appeal, Barnett asserts that (1) the district court abused its discretion in referring to the Sentencing Guidelines, (2) the district court applied the Sentencing Guidelines as mandatory, (3) United States Sentencing Commission,…