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New Crimes as a Result of Internet

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

The widespread use of the internet has created a new area of criminal prosecutions in Florida, other states and nationwide in the federal criminal justice system. Not only are illegal sexually explicit materials more readily available to consumers who, prior to the internet, did not have easy access to such materials, but now, according to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the mere communication over the internet, telephone, mail or other medium that one has illegal materials and offers them for distribution can be the basis for a criminal prosecution resulting in a lengthy prison sentence, even if those materials don't acutally exist. On May 19, 2008 the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in U.S. v. Michael Williams, Case No...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on May 25, 2008 (boomark / email).