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Potent response to DOJ account of federal child porn sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

I noted last week in this post that the Department of Justice had produced this extended response to this ABA Journal articleon the debate over federal child porn sentencing.  One target of the DOJ response was Federal Public Defender Troy Stabenow, who wrote this very influential analysis of the federal child porn sentencing guidelines.  Troy has written a response to the ABA Journalconcerning the DOJ account of the child porn guidelines, which asserts that the DOJ document makes a "straw-man argument [that] misrepresents the issue, grossly distorting my position into one that I would never make, let alone support."  Troy's full letter can be downloaded below, and here are excerpts: The debate within our system is not whether to prosecute, it is generally how many decades of prison time an offender will serve...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).