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Sixth Circuit "reasonableness of sentence" decision

By Chuck Kallendorf

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the sentences of two defendants who had plead guilty to coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of producing visual depictions of that conduct, and possession of child pornography. ( Decision)

Katherine Pratt and Walter Vowell, her live-in boyfriend at the time of the offenses, on three separate occasions made videotapes of Vowell sexually molesting Pratt?s then eight-year-old daughter while she ran the camera. Both plead guilty in district court. Pratt was sentenced to three years in prison and lifetime supervised release thereafter; Vowell was sentenced to 65 years in prison and lifetime supervised release.. They appealed their respective sentences, challenging the procedural and substantive reasonableness of them.

Full post as published by Cincinnati Law Library Blog on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).