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Federal child porn sentencing for former Maine prosecutor bringing out divergent recommendations

By Douglas A. Berman

I am in Washington DC this morning because I have the honnor of speaking this afternoon at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces 2011 Judicial Conference on the topic of "Federal Sentencing Law and Policy for Child Pornography Offenses."  But that is only one of the reasons I find interesting this new article from the Bangor Daily News headlined "Prosecutor seeks long sentence for ex-AG on child porn charges." Here are excerpts: A federal prosecutor thinks the man who was Maine?s top drug prosecutor should be behind bars for at least 21 years. The attorney for the former assistant attorney general believes his client should spend no more than five years in federal prison on child pornography charges. How much time James M. Cameron, 48, of Hallowell serves will be decided Thursday by U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).