Third Circuit· 4/5/2006

United States v. James E. MacEwan

Citations

445 F.3d 237
2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 8237
2006 WL 861184

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holding that the defendant’s mandatory minimum term of fifteen years’ imprisonment was not grossly disproportionate to his offense
noting that the appellant bears the burden of proving that a punishment is unduly harsh compared to a crime
explaining that this Court “defer[s] to the findings made by Congress” in assessing the gravity of child pornography
holding that the internet qualifies as an instrumentality and channel of interstate commerce, and that the defendant’s download of child pornography from the internet fell within the first two prongs of Lopez, regardless of whether the images were produced out of state
asking \whether downloading an image of child pornography from the Internet [] involves the receipt of something transported in interstate commerce\
asking “whether downloading an image of child pornography from the Internet [] involves the receipt of something transported in interstate commerce”

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Judges: Roth, Aldisert, Rodriguez

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