United States v. Miller

Miller cut a hole into his basement bathroom wall, installed a clear shower curtain, then took photos and videos of girls, aged 12-16, undressing or showering. He specifically directed some of them to shower in the basement bathroom. One victim was half‐sister to Miller’s son. Miller’s older son discovered nude videos on Miller’s computer and confronted him. Miller stated that the female was Miller’s adult girlfriend. The computer disappeared; Miller continued to film girls in the bathroom. Eventually, Miller’s son found the hole in the drywall and contacted the police. Miller was convicted of 22 counts of sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). The court stated that there was “only one reasonable inference," that he intended to view the girls for sexual arousal. With a guidelines range of 324-405 months, Miller was sentenced to 216 months’ imprisonment, with 15 years of supervised release. Special conditions required that Miller allow probation to notify others of any relevant risk associated with his history, that he submit to physiological testing, and that he not have contact with any person under the age of 18 unless supervised, including his own children. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting an argument that there was insufficient evidence to find that the videos he created were “lascivious” and challenges to his sentence and conditions of supervised release. View "United States v. Miller" on Justia Law