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Effective review of federal uptick in child-porn prosecutions

By Douglas A. Berman

In today's San Jose Mercury News is this effective article, headlined "Feds push child-porn cases; penalty can be years in prison."  Here are excerpts:Just a few mouse clicks into the forbidden world of Internet child porn can transform an apparently upstanding individual into a federal prison inmate ? doing a long sentence. That's the harsh reality former KGO radio host Bernie Ward will encounter this week.  The popular and prominent liberal voice on Bay Area radio for decades is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in San Francisco federal court for distributing sexual images of young children.  The best the 57-year-old Ward can hope for is five years in prison. Setting aside his celebrity status, Ward's case is no aberration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).