United States v. Shrake

EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

A jury convicted Jason Shrake of possessing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and of transmitting them in interstate commerce. 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(1), (4). Shrake sent video files over the Internet to a federal agent who promised other child porn in exchange. The evidence allowed a jury to conclude that some of the participants in these videos were minors — indeed, that one was a toddler. Sentenced to 330 months’ imprisonment, he contests not only the penalty (which he says is unreasonably long) but also limits on his expert’s pretrial access to…