SHANNON v. UNITED STATES

No. 21-1108.

39 F.4th 868 (2022)

Shawn SHANNON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 12, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis T. Lovelace , Attorney, Lovelace Center for Criminal Law, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

W. Scott Simpson , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Hamilton and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


In a jury trial before District Judge Colin S. Bruce, petitioner Shawn Shannon was convicted of nineteen counts of sexually exploiting a child and one count of distributing child pornography. Judge Bruce sentenced Shannon to 720 months (60 years) in prison. Shannon challenges those convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255...

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