Court Opinion

ID: 4321006
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-10-15 20:02:11.263317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:35.416015
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                             OCT 15 2018
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                           U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No.    17-50223

              Plaintiff-Appellee,                D.C. No.
                                                 3:16-cr-02666-JAH-1
 v.

COLEMAN LOUIS PAYNE,                             MEMORANDUM*

              Defendant-Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of California
                     John A. Houston, District Judge, Presiding

                       Argued and Submitted October 9, 2018
                               Pasadena, California

Before: SCHROEDER, M. SMITH, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.

      Coleman Payne appeals the sentence of 80 months in custody and seven

years supervised release following his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child

pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2).

      *
        This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
         Payne first contends that the district court committed a procedural error by

inferring that all his chat room visits were for purposes of exchanging or discussing

child pornography. Payne admitted he entered the chat room several times a week

to discuss pedophilia fantasies, and the visits extended over several months. The

district court never stated that all of the visits were related to child pornography,

and the record reflects that a proportion of the visits must have been related.

Accordingly, the sentence was not based on the adverse inference that all of

Payne’s chat room visits involved child pornography, and there was no procedural

error.

         Payne also challenges the district court’s imposition of three special

conditions of release. Two restrictions - no contact with minors and not loitering

near minors - were clear in their meaning and appropriately related to the statutory

goals of rehabilitation and protecting the public from crimes similar to that of

which Payne had been convicted. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a); United States v.

Daniels, 541 F.3d 915, 928 (9th Cir. 2008); United States v. Stoterau, 524 F.3d
988, 1008 (9th Cir. 2008). The district court did not abuse its discretion in

imposing these special conditions of release. The restriction on access to the

internet, however, may reach too broadly in light of the variety of devices and

situations to which it might apply as written. We therefore remand for the district

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court to clarify that the first sentence of the restriction is aimed at devices that have

the capacity to access child pornography.

      As to the family responsibilities standard condition, the parties agree that the

condition should not have been included in Payne’s sentence. We therefore also

remand for the district court to strike the family responsibilities standard condition

from Payne’s conditions of supervised release.

      AFFIRMED in part and REMANDED in part.

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