Legal Opinion
United States v. Bryan Pittsinger
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 26, 2017No. 16-11096PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN A. HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Bryan Kendall Pittsinger pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). The district court sentenced him to 360 months’ imprisonment, the statutory maximum. Pittsinger now appeals that sentence, contending that the district court erred in denying his motion for a downward variance before permitting him to address the court and in applying the three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility to his total offense level of 51 rather than to his adjusted total offense level of 43. We find no error…
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