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By Corey Rayburnyung

CrimProf Blog has a post noting an NPR story discussing Kennedy v. Louisiana which is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.  NPR speaks to Ted Cruz, "the former Solicitor General of Texas, who also participated in Kennedy's Supreme Court appeal," and Judy Benitez, "the executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault." Sentencing Law and Policy reports on a new Third Circuit decision, which "reaches some significant conclusions in a federal child porn prosecution."  The Court upheld the conviction of the defendant for receiving child pornography, but found that "the double jeopardy clause barred convictions for both receiving and possessing the same images of child pornography, and the entry of guilty verdicts on both of these counts was plain error...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).