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124015P.pdf   01/10/2014  United States  v.  Joseph Vanhorn
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-4015
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Beam and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. In prosecution under 18 
   U.S.C. Sec. 2251(a), the district court properly interpreted the word 
   "uses" and correctly overruled defendant's motion for a directed verdict; 
   district court adequately considered and weighed the 3553 sentencing 
   factors and did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence; Eighth 
   Amendment claim to sentence rejected as nothing suggests the sentence is 
   grossly disproportionate to the crime.