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Another Long Child Pornography Sentence

By Corey Rayburnyung

Appellate Law & Practice has a post with a title ("Fifteen Year Mandatory Minimum for Guy in Wheelchair Trying to Produce Child Pr0n Okay") that pretty much encapsulates what a First Circuit opinion was about. This was S. Cotus's summary of U.S. v. Polk:US v. Polk, No. 07-2425 asks the question of whether the ?fifteen-year mandatory minimum term of imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? violates the Eighth.  Selya writes the opinion so you can tell where it is going.  This is a pretty typical ?seduction of cop posing as teenage girl? case. The strange wrinkle is that the defendant was in a wheelchair and argues that he is harmless.  He was sentenced above the mandatory minimum, but the First explains that ?The possibility exists that, but for the mandatory minimum, the GSR would have been more modest and the defendant's sentence would, accordingly, have been less...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).