U.S. v. Horton

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 90-year term of incarceration, after defendant had pleaded guilty to six related counts of sexually exploiting child, where charges stemmed from defendant’s use of his iPhone to film himself sexually molesting three of his male karate students. While defendant argued that instant sentence was substantively unreasonable, and that 25-year sentence was reasonable given his poor upbringing, defendant failed to overcome presumptive reasonableness of instant within-guideline range sentence. Moreover, Dist. Ct. could have properly focused on extremely serious nature of defendant's crime, vulnerability of instant grade school age victims, and need to protect public from dangerous child molester.