United States v. Marvin Hersh

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• holding that possession of child pornography and molestation of a minor were of a similar character
• holding that there was no compelling prejudice where “a reasonable jury undoubtedly would have found both the evidence of [the defendant’s] child molestation and the evidence of [his] child pornography very inflammatory”
• relying in part on the trial court’s limiting instruction as evidence that any error in admitting certain evidence was harmless
• reviewing the denial of a motion to sever under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 14 for an abuse of dis- cretion
• affirming 105-year sentence where district court departed upward under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.0 6 from advisory guidelines 5 We review a district court’s decision to depart upward for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Magluta, 418 F.3d 1166, 1184 (11th Cir. 2005
• intent to engage in sexual activity is bolstered by evidence they engaged in sexual activities after crossing state lines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).