United States v. Joseph Griffith

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• explaining that an upward adjustment may be inadequate to address the degree of sexual exploitation
• explaining that the particularly horrific nature of defendant’s images justified a sentence above guidelines range
• upholding upward departure based on defendant’s two prior convictions for sexual abuse of children and his three failed attempts to complete treatment for sex offenders
• discussing the effect of the PROTECT Act on a district court’s decision to upward depart
• affirming upward departure in sentence for pornography distribution where defendant’s photographs were the worst the judge had seen in 35-year legal career and defendant posed serious risk of future dangerousness
• discussing effect of PROTECT Act on district court’s decision to upward depart

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).