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House Republicans file brief in support of 30-year mandatory minimum sentence in Farley

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers may recall a notable district court opinion from last September (discussed in this post), which found unconstitutional a mandatory minimum term of 30 years imprisonment for a defendant who travelled across state lines in an effort to engage in sexual activity with a fictious ten-year old.  The case, US v. Farley, is now on appeal before the Eleventh Circuit, and this new post from the CQ Legal Beat reports on a notable new filing in this case: A group of House Republicans filed a brief Wednesday challenging a federal District Court's ruling that a 30-year mandatory minimum prison sentence was a cruel and unusual punishment for a man convicted of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. That automatic mandatory minimum prison sentence was included in the Adam Walsh Act passed by Congress to combat child sex abuse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).