United States v. Ramos, No. 12-1801 (1st Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseDefendant and three co-defendants were recorded on three different videos engaging in sex acts with a fourteen-year-old girl. Defendant was subsequently charged with aiding and abetting the production of child pornography. At trial, Defendant contended that because he did not know he was being filmed he could not have aided and abetted the crime of producing child pornography. A jury found Defendant guilty. Defendant appealed his conviction and his sentence. The First Circuit (1) affirmed Defendant’s conviction, holding that a reasonable jury could have found Defendant guilty and that the trial judge did not deprive Defendant of his right to call a key witness; (2) affirmed Defendant’s prison sentence; but (3) vacated supervised release conditions that generally forbade Defendant from using a computer or the internet without permission from his probation officer or the court and that barred Defendant from having any pornographic material, as these conditions deprived Defendant of more liberty than reasonably necessary to achieve the goals of sentencing.
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