U.S. v. SAWYER

No. 15-2276-cr August Term 2017.

907 F.3d 121 (2018)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jesse SAWYER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 26, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BRUCE R. BRYAN , Syracuse, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant.

STEVEN D. CLYMER , Assistant United States Attorney ( Lisa M. Fletcher and Michael D. Gadarian , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Grant C. Jaquith, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.

Chief District Judge Crawford dissents in a separate opinion.


Jesse Sawyer, having pled guilty to sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography, was originally sentenced primarily to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. We ruled that that sentence was shockingly high given Sawyer's harrowing upbringing and comparatively low danger to the...

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