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211909P.pdf   07/08/2022  United States  v.  Raul Rivas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-1909
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Imposition of the mandatory minimum sentence 
   set out in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2422(b) did not violate the Eighth Amendment's 
   prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment; the facts of the case 
   show defendant intentionally engaged in conduct that is both dangerous and 
   exploitive of children, which is precisely the kind of conduct 
   contemplated and targeted by the statute of conviction; such facts do not 
   support an inference of gross disproportionality.