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Notable new district court opinion addressing effort to defend child porn sentencing guidelines

By Douglas A. Berman

Regular readers know well the robust on-going debate in the federal courts concerning the federal sentencing guidelines and appropriate sentencing for child porn offenses.  Though most detailed written sentencing opinion on the subject have assailed the operation and severity of the federal guidelines for child porn downloading offenses, earlier this year US District Judge John Adams issued a thoughtful opinion in US v. Cunningham, No. 1:09CR154 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 26, 2010) (discussed here) provided a detailed defense of the federal child porn guidelines.  Now I have received a new opinion from US District Judge Lynn Adelman, US v. Diaz, No. 09-CR-302 (E.D. Wisc. June 30, 2010) (available for download below), which takes on the reasoning of Cunningham and "respectfully disagree[s] with the court?s observations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).