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Supreme Court Lets Child Porn Conviction Stand

By Walin & Klarich

In a recent opinion, the United States Supreme Court upheld the validity of a federal child pornography statute. United States v. Williams. In Williams, the Defendant, Williams, using a sexually explicit screen name, signed in to a public Internet chat room. A Secret Service agent had also signed in to the chat room under the moniker "Lisa n Miami." The agent noticed that Williams had posted a message that read: "Dad of toddler has 'good' pics of her an [sic] me for swap of your toddler pics, or live cam." The agent struck up a conversation with Williams, leading to an electronic exchange of non-pornographic pictures of children. (The agent's picture was in fact a doctored photograph of an adult.) Soon thereafter, Williams messaged that he had photographs of men molesting his 4-year-old daughter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).