U.S. v. Meschino

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to combined 360-month term of incarceration on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography where certain enhancement was based on testimony from defendant's niece that defendant had sexually abused her for 10-year period beginning at age four. Moreover, Dist. Ct. did not err in preventing defendant from cross-examining niece about recent rape allegation she had made against another family member where defendant had no concrete information to support his contention that niece was lying about said rape allegation, and where other evidence supported niece's allegations against defendant. Also, Dist. Ct. could impose enhancement under section 2G2.2(b)(4) of USSG for possession of material portraying sadistic conduct even though defendant claimed that he never specifically sought images of this nature.