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Another puzzling report on federal child porn sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers may get tired of my regular anecdotal reports on federal child porn sentencings, but I continue to struggle to figure out how different US Attorney offices are dealing with these sad cases. For example, consider the remarkable case from Virginia reported here, headlined "Former Marine gets 12 years for 650,000 child porn images."  The press account indicates that the defendant had a history of sex with minors and a record-setting collection of child porn:Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa O'Boyle ... told U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman that the 650,000 images included 325,000 still images and 325,000 video images, but that the number was conservative.  Agents simply stopped counting at a certain point...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).