United States v. Horton

Horton, a 20-year-old karate instructor who used his iPhone to film himself sexually molesting three of his young students, pleaded guilty to six counts of sexually exploiting a child, 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). Horton’s guidelines range was life, subject to a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years on each count. The district court imposed a 90-year prison sentence, which Horton argued was substantively unreasonable. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. Horton failed to rebut the presumption of reasonableness afforded to his within-guidelines sentence.View "United States v. Horton" on Justia Law