Legal Opinion
United States v. Bistline
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 9, 2012No. 19-1241PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
Richard Bistline pled guilty to knowingly possessing 305 images and 56 videos of child pornography on his computer. Many, if not a majority, of those images and videos depicted 8- to 10-year-old girls being raped by adult men. Under the Sentencing Guidelines, Bistline’s recommended sentence was 63 to 78 months’ imprisonment. The district court rejected that recommendation and instead sentenced Bistline to a single night’s confinement in the courthouse lockup, plus ten years’ supervised release. The United States contends that Bistline’s sentence is…
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