United States v. Ronald Colson

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

Ronald Colson pleaded guilty to six counts of receiving movies depicting actual female minors engaged in actual and simulated genital and oral sex with adult males, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2). Because Colson had a pri- or state conviction, which the district court concluded “related to either sexual abuse or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor,” the court imposed, over Colson’s objection, a 15-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment, as provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(b)(l). The prior conviction that the court relied on was a 1984 conviction…