United States v. Zauner, No. 12-1007 (8th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to production of child pornography for photographs she took of her daughters at ages six and two. The district court sentenced Defendant to 216 months, departing and varying downward from Defendant's guideline sentence of 360 months. Defendant challenged her sentence on appeal as substantively unreasonable. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding (1) the record demonstrated that the district court carefully considered the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors in light of the mitigating evidence presented and the gravity of the offense; and (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing the sentence and that Defendant's sentence was not unreasonable.
Court Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. Sentence was not substantively unreasonable. Judge Bright, concurring. [ August 10, 2012
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