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Sixth Circuit amends its federal guidelines masturbation jurisprudence

By Douglas A. Berman

In this prior post from a few months ago, I noted that the Sixth Circuit had to resolve a guideline question that forced it to break new ground in federal guidelines masturbation jurisprudence. But today brings a new amended Sixth Circuit ruling in US v. Shafer, No. 07-2574 (6th Cir. July 21, 2009) (available here), which starts this way: Defendant-Appellant Robert Shafer (?Shafer?) appeals his sentence of 360 months of imprisonment resulting from his guilty plea to one count of enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of producing visual depictions of such conduct and which were produced using material which had been shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).