Third Circuit· 8/30/2007

United States v. Goff

Citations

501 F.3d 250
2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 20946
2007 WL 2445637

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noting that the defendant’s lack of a propensity to molest children “is, in one sense, irrelevant” to the District Court’s assessment of the seriousness of the crime of possessing child pornography
noting that individuals who \possess child pornography directly contribute to [children's] continuing victimization\
finding an unreasonably lenient sentence when the district court deviated drastically from the norm with respect to a defendant in the \heartland\ of offenders rather than an outlier
explaining that the defendant’s “criminal history, in Category I, is similar to the vast majority of those convicted” of the same offense, and therefore, the defendant “is no outlier; he is, on the contrary, plainly in the ‘heartland’ of offenders.”
opining the consumer of child pornography provides an economic motive for creating and distributing child pornography
finding an unreasonably lenient sentence when the district court deviated drastically from the norm with respect to a defendant in the “heartland” of offenders rather than an outlier

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Judges: Fisher, Jordan, Roth

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