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Notable Child Porn Opinion From Sixth Circuit

By Corey Rayburnyung

Sentencing Law and Policy has a discussion of a recent split Sixth Circuit's affirmance of a within-guideline child porn sentence in US v. Paull, No. 07-3482.  You can view the opinion here. The dissent, citing a recent Wall Street Journal article, notably suggests that our legal system "has lost its bearings on the subject of computer-based child pornography."  From the dissent:As a recent October 23, 2008, Wall Street Journal article by Amir Efrati points out, our federal legal system has lost its bearings on the subject of computer-based child pornography.  Our ?social revulsion? against these ?misfits? downloading these images is perhaps somewhat more rational than the thousands of witchcraft trials and burnings conducted in Europe and here from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, but it borders on the same thing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).