Legal Opinion
United States v. Ward
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 27, 2010No. 09-4271PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
Lawrence Scott Ward appeals his sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment and a $100,000 fine imposed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Because the District Court committed a procedural error, we will vacate and remand for resentencing.
I. Background
Ward, a former professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, pled guilty to two counts of inducing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for purposes of producing a visual depiction of that conduct in violation of 18 U.S.C. §…
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