Legal Opinion
United States v. Patrick John Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 9, 2012No. 10-2407PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-Appellant Patrick John Corp entered an unconditional guilty plea to the government’s charge that he sexually exploited a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). The district court imposed a within-Guidelines, 360-month sentence. Corp now raises an as-applied Commerce Clause challenge to his conviction, arguing that the government’s failure to demonstrate a sufficient interstate nexus resulted in a lack of federal jurisdiction. He also contests the length of his sentence on both procedural and substantive grounds. In his procedural…
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