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First Circuit· 6/1/2012

United States v. Goergen

Citations

  • 683 F.3d 1
  • 2012 WL 2478175
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11115

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  • holding that the court need not accept legal conclusions or formulaic 3 recitations of the elements of a legal claim as true
  • holding that the Board engaged in prohibited de novo review in finding a contradiction in a witness’s testimony and making its own finding about that witness’s credibility
  • upholding as substantively reasonable a sixty-year sentence for four counts of sexual exploitation of children
  • upholding 720-month sentence for 47-year-old man who pled guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of children where, over a period of several years, he produced pictures and videos of three minor girls engaged in sexually explicit activities
  • reasonable juror could find 4 likelihood of confusion despite addition of a word to company 5 name

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Judges: Boudin, Souter, Thompson

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