192417P.pdf   12/16/2020  United States  v.  Robert Hensley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2417
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support 
   defendant's child pornography convictions; the evidence showed he intended 
   to entice the fictitious minor female to engage in illegal sexual conduct 
   and that he took a substantial step towards commission of the crime by 
   planning and ultimately driving to an agreed-upon location to meet the 
   minor; defendant attempted to produce child pornography when he asked for 
   a photograph of the minor's breasts and vagina; the evidence was 
   sufficient to show defendant knowingly possessed child pornography on his 
   computer; the court's jury instruction on consideration of prior 
   convictions and substantive step were not erroneous; the court cautions 
   that instructions using illustrative examples which track closely the 
   facts of a defendant's case are discouraged; the instructions here 
   regarding substantial step toward the commission of an offense fall short 
   of reversible error; the prosecutor's closing arguments were supported by 
   the evidence or reasonable inferences therefrom, and did not warrant 
   reversal under the plain error doctrine; any error in failing to suppress 
   defendant's statements to police was harmless in light of the other 
   evidence in the case, including defendant's own testimony at trial; 
   argument that the court erred in imposing a 420-month sentence on the 
   possession of pornography count rejected as the error was harmless because 
   the mandatory minimum for his conviction on the charge of attempted 
   production of child pornography after having previously been convicted of 
   a child sex crime is 420 months.