United States v. Robert P. Deane

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Robert Deane was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts of sexual exploitation of children in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(1). In sentencing Deane, the district court departed below the sentencing range provided by the United States Sentencing Guidelines. The government appeals. We are constrained to vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing.

Deane became the target of a government sting operation after government officials found his name on a convicted child molester’s list of child pornography magazine…