United States v. Timothy Sims

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that non-lascivious videos supported a charge of attempted production of child pornography
• remanding the case for the district court to balance the probative weight and the prejudicial effect of the evidence in considering whether it was admissible
• uncovering “two disks containing at least 90 images of child pornography”
• “[T]he government does not need to prove that the videos of [the minor] were actually lascivious.”
• “[T]he government does not need to prove that the videos ... were actually lascivious. (If they were, [defendant] would presumably be facing an actual-production charge.
• “To convict [the defendant] of attempted production of child pornography, the government does not need to prove that the videos of [the minor] were actually lascivious.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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• United States v. Dennis Hodge
  Sixth Circuit· 2015-10-20· cited 32×
• United States v. Christina Carman
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-08-06· cited 19×
• United States v. Adam Libbey-Tipton
  Sixth Circuit· 2020-01-23· cited 19×
• United States v. Tel Boam
  Ninth Circuit· 2023-05-30· cited 10×
• United States v. John Bass
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-11-03· cited 9×
• United States v. Lamont Harvey
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-04-28· cited 8×
• United States v. Bernhard Jakits
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-02-20· cited 7×
• State of Tennessee v. Thomas William Whited - dissenting
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-05-04
• State of Tennessee v. Doyle Wayne Mason, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-08-25
• United States v. Brewer
  W.D. Texas· 2013-10-17
• Davariol Marquavis Taylor v. Nurse Stevens
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Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Inland Bulk Transfer Co. v. Cummins Engine Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-06-17· cited 108×
• United States v. Grahame P. Sanders, Cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-09-12· cited 101×
• United States v. Thomas Michael Khalil
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-01-09· cited 91×
• United States v. Ronald Bilderbeck
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-01-05· cited 79×
• United States v. Stout
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-12-20· cited 54×
• United States v. Timothy Parkes
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-02-02· cited 16×