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Another sad federal child porn sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

In prior posts I have noted the challenges judges ae facing with sentencings in child porn downloading cases.  In a recent Seventh Circuit decision, US v. Allday, No. 07-2698  (7th Cir. Sept. 5, 2008) (available here), a panel affirms a district court's decision to deal with these challenges by giving a within-guideline sentence.  The start of the opinion provides these factual basics:A devoted and by all accounts loving father and grandfather, Gilbert Allday is hardly a man one would expect to find sentenced to eight years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.  Expectations aside, in January 2004 Allday began looking at pornographic web sites while surfing the Internet.  From there, Allday began visiting web sites depicting minor children engaged in sexual acts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).