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Opinion
Filed
April 26, 2019
Case
United States v. Cookson
Case status
Decided

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McHUGH, Circuit Judge. Daniel Eugene Cookson pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography after the FBI identified him in the course of its large-scale sting operation involving the website "Playpen." At his sentencing hearing, the district court determined Mr. Cookson's criminal history and total offense level correlated to a Guidelines range of 97-121 months. The distr…

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