mr kopp had been involved in similar conduct and that he was at the same time contemplating getting involved again with another minor and so he starts priest saying but he rose to the challenge your honor he has his sentencing memorandum is twenty one pages long it has voluminous attachments he did have the benefit of the psychiatric report that mr cobb's prior counsel had arranged for and that report is thirty overall thirteen and a half single spaced pages and represents more than six hours and fifteen minutes of meetings with mr kopp at the prison facility so my concern the district court i think relies significantly on mr kopp statement to the about what he did with an eleven year old girl in the germany or switzerland not a sufficient reason to grant a limited contin well you're right it's not like whatever whatever happened in that past incident happened in georgia or alabama or montana or north dakota or california we're can hop on a plane or talk to people different country in a different language and it just it boggles my mind that a district judge is not going to grant a limited contin in a case where he's contemplating imposing a life sentence an upward variance from ten years i just don't understand what the rush to response to that would be additional time to investigate the absence of any we would agree that mr kopp was never arrested or charged with any in connection with that twenty year old incident so it's you know i think it's sort of a misnomer to say that he needed time additional time to investigate because we would freely admit that there are no record there's nothing to substantiate that the incident occurred other than mr cop's own candid admissions in that regard the government admissions and in that regard i would encourage the school to review the forty minute video of mr cop's conversations with the undercover officer during the ride from the airport to the point of arrest it's really really telling and i can even give the court ten points to various particularly inculpatory things he said but if you there's no reticence on the part of mr kopper during that forty minute car ride there is no there's there's enthusiasm there's excitement there's hand they based on mr cop's words on his facial expressions on his hand gestures you know where it comes through loud and clear that mr kopp has been spending the last twenty years trying to recreate an incident that happened twenty years earlier earlier during which he beat an eleven year old with a belt while her father held her down and his description of it his description of it as being that he was a lucky guy at that time i mean the video is chilling and again it's approximately forty minutes but the st thirty five are really all that are pertinent but to put yourselves in the shoes of the destroy i think it's imperative that you take the time to watch that video observe mr cobb's demeanor observe the way he conducted himself at one point during the conversation when the undercover related to mr kopp the undercover basically portray himself as sort of a novice practices and at one point he even said to mr koppel i don't know i've done the right thing but i haven't had sex with his daughter in two weeks and mr cops response was what will happen tonight orlando to decide that this was not something he wanted to do but when he got in that car and spent forty minutes in the car with the under an undercover officer his intentions were clear and the other thing i want to address is there  in the car and the car ride was essentially a reiteration of what mr kopp had said during the course of the month and a half of discussions and i guess as attempting to can confirm the contours of the encounter to make sure that the undercover was on board with what he had in mind the other thing i want to make clear as we keep talking about this involving non sexual city masochistic activity but that's not i mean certainly that that feature of the encounter was that aspect featured prominently but mr cobb had in of sexual activity including you know parading the girl around the agent's backyard wearing a dog leash but he also had in mind sexual activity including tying the thirteen year old to a bed over the course of the night and raping her experts noted that mr cobb speaks quote excellent english with a german accent at the beginning of mr cobb sentencing hearing his success the nd attorney his nd counsel interrupted the district court and said your honor mr kopp does not need a translator he would prefer to listen to the proceedings in english so the notion that mr kopp needed new counsel two weeks before his sentencing hearing at a time when the sentencing hearing had been scheduled for approximately ten weeks also is not supported by the record one that i think bears a striking resemblance to this case is one that i handled ten years ago in that united states versus freelander and in that case it involved a similar scenario in which an undercover posed as the father of two young boys ten and eleven years old and also involved traveling there the defendant traveled from his home in sarasota to st pete to meet up with the officer here mr cobb traveled from switzerland for a conference in new jersey for a week and then after that conference flew to orlando for what he undercover had told the defendant and that is there the victims were ten dollars eleven cents rather than thirteen and that made a difference because it because the victims were under the age of twelve dollars and eight dollars level specific offense characteristic applied also because there were in that case two victims rather than one that bumped up as guidelines range so really the driving force for mr freed lander's guidelines range well it was the narrative that the undercover had  created during the course of his conversations with the defendant so here you know the thirteen year old easily could have been eleven and mr kopp could have found himself in a you know very simple and even though there's only  i understand your honor and with respect to mr friedlander he was seventy nine at the time of sentencing so his sentence effectively is a life sentence and in fact his compassionate release proceeding is currently pending before this court i just responded to his brief about a take your time to set up but i'll call the case number eighteen