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092872P.pdf 05/26/2010 United States v. Michael Sampson, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-2872
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. District court did not
abuse its discretion by denying defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty
plea to a felon-in-possession charge as defendant's plea was knowing and
voluntary, and nothing in the record suggests he was coerced into making
the plea; no error in imposing enhancements under Guidelines Sec.
2G2.1(b)(7) for the number of child pornography images involved in the
case, as mailing the same video twice counts as two images; any error in
counting an Illinois conviction for indecent solicitation of a child as a
violent felony was harmless as the court expressed its desire to impose
the same sentence regardless of whether the conviction was counted.