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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Very Long Child Porn Sentence

By Corey Rayburnyung

Sentencing Law & Policy has a post about a Eleventh Circuit decision involving a more than 27 year sentence for one count of receiving child pornography.  You can view the opinion here. As the SL&P post notes, the case offers a lesson in coffee shop etiquette. From the opinion: On July 21, 2007, a Savannah police officer responded to a report that an individual was viewing child pornography on a laptop computer in a coffee house. That individual, [Defendant], admitted to the investigating officer that he was viewing child pornography on the computer. The officer subsequently seized the laptop and turned it over to federal authorities, who later discovered child pornography files on the computer, including the video file specified in Count Two of the indictment.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).