Legal Opinion
United States v. Arnold Maurice Mathis
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 24, 2014No. 13-13109PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
Arnold Maurice Mathis, a registered sex offender, enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity in 2004. Seven years later, in 2011, he attempted to convince a minor to take sexually explicit pictures and send them to him via text message, and he actually succeeded in convincing a different minor to do so. Based on this conduct, a jury convicted Mathis of several child exploitation offenses and the district court sentenced him to a 480-month total term of imprisonment. On appeal, Mathis raises numerous challenges to his convictions and sentences, which we address in turn. After a thorough…
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