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081642P.pdf 05/28/2009 United States v. Travis O'Connor
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-1642
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Bye and John R. Gibson,
Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. There was no error, plain or otherwise, in
the district court's decision to consider and give significant weight to
Congress and the Sentencing Commission's expressed desire to avoid
sentences below the Guidelines range for offenders who commit sexual
offenses involving minors; sentence was not unreasonable.