United States v. Borromeo, No. 10-3229 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a) and sentenced to 360 months imprisonment, the statutory maximum sentence. At issue was whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence. The court affirmed because the district court considered all the mitigating circumstances and concluded, not unreasonably, that they were outweighed by the seriousness of the offense and the special relationships with the child victims that defendant had fostered and then abused. The court also held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in considering the victim relationships that defendant manipulated, the severe danger he presented to the public, and the repetitive nature of his egregious crimes.
Court Description: Criminal case -Sentencing. Sentence was not substantively unreasonable as the district court considered all of the mitigating factors and found they were outweighed by the seriousness of the crimes, the special relationship defendant had with his child victims, the repetitive nature of the crimes and the severe danger defendant posed.
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