United States v. Michael Shepard

CLAY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Michael Keith Shepard appeals the judgment of the district court sentencing him to 30 months’ incarceration for failure to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a)— his second conviction for this offense. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM.

BACKGROUND

2009 Michigan Case—Underlying Offense

In 2009, Defendant Michael Keith Shepard arranged to meet what he thought was a fifteen-year-old girl for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. When the “girl” turned out to be an undercover deputy, he…