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Is there a law student sentencing discount for federal child porn charges?

By Douglas A. Berman

In this post a few months ago, I responded to a story headlined "Penn hacker sentenced, avoids child porn charges," by wondering if there was an an ivy-leaguer exception to federal child porn charges.  Today, this new local story of a child porn sentencing out of Boston has me wondering if there is a law student discount in federal child porn sentence cases.  Here are some excerpts from an interesting of what sounds like an interesting sentencing hearing: A former law school student was sentenced Thursday to a year in a halfway house for possessing child pornography. Robert A. McDonald, 25, formerly of West Springfield, dodged a stiffer sentence in federal court after he made a teary plea for leniency and told a judge he deeply regretted looking at pictures of young children being sexually abused on the Internet...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).