United States v. Schrode, No. 15-3522 (7th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseIn April 2013, Schrode committed predatory sexual assault against a four‐year‐old family member, Jane. He pled guilty in state court in February 2014 and was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment. In June 2013, the FBI executed a search warrant of Schrode’s Springfield, Illinois home and discovered that Schrode sent child pornography to a man in Michigan. In exchange, Schrode watched that man through streaming video and directed him as he sexually assaulted his son. The FBI discovered images and videos of child pornography on Schrode’s computer. In June 2014, when Schrode was in custody, his wife discovered videos of him sexually assaulting Jane at a friend’s home. The video was turned over to the FBI. Schrode pled guilty to four federal child pornography counts and was sentenced to 630 months’ imprisonment, some to run consecutively to his state sentence, plus a life term of supervised release. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. The district court did not err in requiring some of his federal sentence to run consecutively to his state sentence, because it did not err in finding that his state offense was not relevant conduct for all of his federal offenses. The court adequately justified imposing a life term of supervision; Schrode waived any challenges to his conditions of release at the sentencing hearing. The court granted a limited remand for sentencing calculation in compliance with 18 U.S.C. 2251(e).
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