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· 7/22/2008

United States v. Betcher

Citations

  • 534 F.3d 820
  • 77 Fed. R. Serv. 90
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 15570
  • 2008 WL 2796721

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that a 750-year sentence 9 is “for practical purposes . . . a life sentence, and that is how we view it”
  • upholding a 9,000-month sentence where the defendant photographed and shared explicit images of his granddaughters
  • upholding 750‐year sentence for first‐time offender who produced, received, and possessed child pornography when guideline range was life
  • affirming a 750-year sentence for a defendant who “took numerous pornographic and erotic pictures of his two young granddaughters and their three girlfriends”
  • affirming a sentence of 750 years in prison, the statutory maximum for each count of production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography
  • affirming a 750-year sentence for child pornography, which “for practical purposes—is a life sentence”

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Judges: Bye, Gruender, Shepherd

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