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Thorough and thoughtful district court defense of federal child porn guidelines

By Douglas A. Berman

As readers of this blog know, in recent years a federal district judges have written thorough and thoughtful sentencing opinions assailing the long prison sentences recommended the the current federal sentencing guidelines for child porn downloading offenses.  Yet, while these often-forceful decisions suggest that it is hard to justify within-guideline sentences in many downloading cases, the fact remains that roughly half or more of all child porn sentences as still imposed within the ranges set out in the federal guidelines.  Thus, I am pleased to have learned of a new thorough and thoughtful opinion from a district judge in the Northern District of Ohio that provides thorough and thoughtful defense of the federal child porn guidelines. The opinion in US v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).