United States v. Hinkley, No. 14-1821 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAppellant entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). Appellant was sentenced to 300 months of imprisonment. Appellant subsequently appealed the district court’s denial of three motions to suppress and also challenged his sentence. The First Circuit affirmed Appellant’s conviction and sentence, holding (1) Appellant’s three motions to suppress were correctly denied; (2) the district court did not err in applying two sentencing enhancements, and any error in the application of the third enhancement was harmless; and (3) Appellant’s sentence was substantively reasonable.
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