Geasland v. United States

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN RICHARD GEASLAND, Petitioner, OPINION and ORDER v. 19-cv-18-jdp UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. Petitioner Richard Geasland filed a motion under

28 U.S.C. § 2255

to vacate his sentence for possession of child pornography. Geasland contended that he should not have been subjected to a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence as a repeater under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(2) because his prior Wisconsin conviction for first-degree sexual assault that triggered that enhancement encompassed a broader range of victim (children 13 and…