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Another Variation in Child Porn Sentencing

By Corey Rayburnyung

At SL&P, Berman continues to track the variations in prosecutor's requests for child porn sentences at the federal level. The latest data point was described as follows: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.... [D]espite all of these aggravating factors, the federal prosecutors in this case apparently were only seeking a sentence of just over 11 years of imprisonment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).