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Some state and international perspectives on child porn prosecutions

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in posts linked below, I have blogged a lot about seemingly disparate prosecutorial charging and judicial sentencing decisions in how the federal criminal justice system is dealing with child porn downloading cases.  Thanks to a helpful reader, I saw two new stories providing a state-level and an international perspective on these issues. At the state level, consider this sentencing story from California: "A Granada hills-based attorney who pleaded no contest to possessing child pornography on his computer was sentenced Wednesday to five years supervised probation and 1,000 hours of community service."  At the international level, consider this enforcement story from Canada, headlined "Child porn scourge creates more suspects than can be arrested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).