United States v. Carpenter, No. 14-13177 (11th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed his 97 month sentence and lifetime supervised release after he pled guilty to possession of child pornography. The court concluded that the district court accurately calculated the Sentencing Guidelines range, treated the Guidelines as advisory, provided a thorough explanation of how it weighed the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors, and addressed defendant’s motion for a downward variance at considerable length. The court further concluded that the district court’s approach was procedurally reasonable, and yielded a substantively reasonable result, in light of the severity of defendant’s conduct. Further, the court concluded that defendant invited the district court to impose a life term, and cannot now complain that the district court did as he asked. Finally, defendant failed to make a specific and contemporaneous objection to the two special conditions of his supervised release, and he cannot show that the court plainly erred in imposing those conditions. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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