United States v. Sholds, No. 14-3720 (8th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant plead guilty to four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. On appeal, defendant challenged his 960-month sentence as substantively unreasonable. Defendant argued that the district court did not give enough weight to the fact that his starting and stopping of the video recording of him anally and vaginally penetrating a two-year-old child resulted in four separate counts of conviction, rather than one, for production of child pornography. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its considerable discretion in sentencing defendant where the district court said that conduct was the worst it had ever seen. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Melloy, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. Defendant's 960-month sentence on four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of the materials was not substantively unreasonable.
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