United States v. Faulkner, No. 18-5867 (6th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseFrom childhood on, Faulkner’s life was plagued by sexual misconduct. A stepbrother sexually abused Faulkner when he was nine years old. And Faulkner’s father was convicted and classified as a sex offender for filming Faulkner’s 13-year-old stepsister while she was showering. For a time, Faulkner overcame his upbringing, graduating high school and enlisting in the Navy, where he served for two years before being discharged under honorable conditions. In the years that followed, Faulkner had convictions for shoplifting and drunk driving and began to act upon his long-harbored sexual attraction to young girls, abusing his five-year-old niece and her half-sister. He began filming and sharing videos of his activities and was eventually pleaded guilty to child-pornography related offenses. Faulkner was sentenced to 570 months in prison. The Sixth Circuit affirmed, rejecting his argument that the Sentencing Guidelines required the district court to “group” together at sentencing his respective charges for production and attempted production of child pornography, which would have resulted in a lower offense level for purposes of calculating Faulkner’s Guidelines range. The court also rejected challenges to his sentence as both substantively and procedurally unreasonable. The court noted that Faulkner’s offense level was 43, so the Guidelines range was life in prison, regardless of his criminal history,
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