United States v. Brenton-Farley

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• holding that law enforcement’s subjective motives are irrelevant for the purposes of determining whether a waiver was voluntarily and knowingly waived
• concluding that a suspect was not deceived about the nature of his rights or the consequences of abandoning them because no evidence indicated that the suspect was “unsure of his rights or needed them clarified”
• noting that although these ʺtwo statutory provisions apply to different age categories of victims,ʺ they ʺare materially identicalʺ
• noting that the defendant’s “trip to Atlanta to meet the mother and child was not the only step he took”
• disregarding that the thirty-year sentence at issue was the statutory minimum sentence in analyzing whether it was “constitutionally disproportionate”
• finding that the mandatory minimum for violating 18 U.S.C. 2241(c) (aggravated sexual abuse with a child) did not violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).