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Some strange stuff in child porn prosecutions

By Douglas A. Berman

This CNN report about today's events in the child porn trial of recording artist R. Kelly provides an amusing twist on a serious subject: before "the 25-minute sex tape at the heart of the R. Kelly child pornography case" was played in a "packed Chicago courtroom," the courtroom sketch artists "were warned that if they drew any depiction of the acts on the tape, they, too, could be charged with child pornography."  As strange as that may sound, a more bizarre federal child porn case was decided today by the First Circuit in a ruling that led a renown blogger at AL&P to exclaim "Sweet Jesus on a Popsicle Stick!". The First Circuit case producing this reaction is US v. Ortiz-Graulau, No. 06-1768 (1st Cir...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).