Wagner

I. Background

Hawkins is a resident of Sacramento, California. (Dkt. # 1, at 2). In October 2010, a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, returned an indictment against Hawkins and two codefendants, Paul Yoshi Moore and Timothy Wayne Lee, charging them with multiple counts of producing child pornography and sex trafficking of a minor. United States v. Hawkins et al., Case No. 2:10-CR- 00458 (E.D. Cal.). Moore and Lee pleaded guilty to the counts asserted against them in a superseding indictment. (Crim. Dkt. # 39). The grand jury returned a second superseding indictment against Hawkins in October 2011, charging him with: three counts of aiding and abetting the production of child pornography involving visual depictions of a minor, A.B., also known as “Thalia” (counts one, two, and four); two counts of transporting or distributing child

pornography (counts three and five); one count of sex trafficking involving a minor (count six); one count of benefiting from sex trafficking of a minor (count seven); and one count of witness tampering (count eight). (Dkt. # 1, at 11; Crim. Dkt. #…