United States v. Laraneta, No. 12-1302 (7th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to seven counts of violation of child pornography laws, 18 U.S.C. 2251(d)(1), 2252(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(4), and was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, followed by supervised release for the rest of his life, and payment of restitution to two women, “Amy and Vicky,” in the amount of $3,367,854.00 and $965,827.64; pornographic images of them, as girls, were found in the defendant’s possession. On appeal, the government defended the sentence but not the restitution award, and challenged allowing Amy and Vicky to intervene (rather than merely to be heard under the Criminal Victims’ Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. 3771(a)(4)). The Seventh Circuit affirmed the prison sentence and the calculation of the victims’ losses, but vacated the order of restitution and remanded for determination of how much to subtract from Amy’s losses to reflect restitution that she has received in other cases and determination of whether the defendant uploaded any of Amy’s or Vicky’s images. Defendant will not be permitted to seek contribution from other defendants convicted of crimes involving pornographic images of the two girls and the girls will not be permitted to intervene in the district court.
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