Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher Charles Joseph FORRISTEL, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-06-10
Citations: 568 F. App'x 375
Docket Number: No. 13-6063
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher Charles Joseph FORRISTEL, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 568
Pages: 375–376

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher Charles Joseph FORRISTEL, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 13-6063.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
June 10, 2014.
BEFORE: SUTTON and COOK, Circuit Judges; MARBLEY, District Judge.
The Honorable Algenon L. Marbley, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Christopher Forristel appeals his 151-month, within-guidelines sentence for transporting child pornography. See 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(1). We affirm.
Forristel pleaded guilty to the transportation charge, admitting that he downloaded 22 videos of child pornography on his laptop in his California residence and then moved—with his computer—to Kentucky.
At sentencing, the district court calculated a sentencing guidelines range of 151 to 188 months' imprisonment, reflecting a base offense level of 22 for transportation convictions. See U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(a)(2). Forristel offered no challenge to this calculation, arguing that the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors justified a sentence of 108 months, the bottom of the guidelines range for defendants convicted of possessing child pornography. See U.S.S.G. 2G2.2(a)(l). According to Forristel, though he technically transported child pornography, his conduct was "no worse than" possession because he never transported it for distribution purposes.
On appeal, Forristel argues that the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence in rejecting his request for a below-guidelines sentence. A presumption of reasonableness, however, applies to Forristel's within-guidelines sentence, see United States v. Overmyer, 663 F.3d 862, 864 (6th Cir.2011), and he fails to rebut that presumption. As the district court reasonably concluded, this is "not a case of just simple possession" because Forristel "transported [his] computer [containing child pornography] actively and willingly from one state to another." (R. 51, Sentencing R. at 50-51.) Moreover, the "fact that the district court did not give the defendant the exact sentence he sought is not a cognizable basis to appeal." United States v. Jackson, 466 F.3d 537, 540 (6th Cir.2006).
We AFFIRM.