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Effective local reporting on realities and debates surrounding federal sentencing guidelines for child porn

By Douglas A. Berman

The Buffalo News has two effective new articles about the dynamics that surround the application of the federal sentencing guidelines for child porn offenses.  The start of this first article, which is headlined "Child porn suspect faces risk with trial: Brose case may be 1st to go before jury here," spotlights some of the plea and sentencing realities for child porn offenses in one federal district and nationwide: If filmmaker Lawrence F. Brose goes to trial and wins an acquittal in his child pornography case, he will accomplish two firsts at Buffalo's federal court. He would be the first person ever arrested in a federal Internet child porn case to go to trial in Buffalo. He also would be the first person to emerge without a felony conviction...continue to full post

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