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053346P.pdf 07/20/2006 USA v. James A. Kiel
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-3346
Eastern District of Missouri
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Arnold and John R. Gibson, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. District court did not err in refusing to
group production of child pornography offenses as the offenses involved
more than one minor and cannot be grouped under Guidelines Sections
2G2.1 and 3D1.2; district court did not err in increasing the offense level
based on the number of minors; district court did not err in denying
acceptance-of-responsibility reduction when defendant pleaded guilty on
the last day of trial (after the government had presented the bulk of its
evidence and the jury had been required to review the child pornography
tapes) and failed to accept responsibility for the other minor victims
portrayed on the tapes.