United States v. Kopp, No. 14-12408 (11th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant moved to Daytona Beach, Florida after registering as a sex offender in the Northern District of Georgia. Defendant failed to update his registration in Daytona Beach and was indicted for failure to register. Defendant conditionally plead guilty, the district court denied defendant's motion to dismiss his indictment, and sentenced him to 16 months imprisonment for violating the terms of his supervised release. The court joined its sister circuits and held that 18 U.S.C. 3237 applies and venue lies in Georgia. The court concluded that, because the crime consists both of traveling and failing to register, defendant began his crime in Georgia and consummated it in Florida. The court also concluded that defendant's sentence for violating his supervised release is substantively reasonable. Accordingly, the court affirmed defendant's conviction for failure to register as a sex offender and his sentence for failing to comply with the terms of his supervised release.
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