Man's life Over, Cops Decide He Watched Child Porn in First Class

And that 5 year mandatory minimum sentence is often ignored by judges here, and judges in the U.K, also toss people in jail for years

And that 5 year mandatory minimum sentence is often gotten around here,

There is no mandatory minimum sentence for possession if the defendant pleads guilty--and most of these cases are resolved with plea deals, where the defendant pleads guilty

Would you care to link to that claim that if you plea guilty of having child porn the federal guidelines minimum sentence do not apply for the crime of having child porn!!!!!!!

Now if they wish to downgrade the charge to something that does not involved having child porn that is possible but I do think that unless you can come up with a link you are bullshiting big time.

In one recent case, James L. Graham, a United States District Court judge in Ohio, sentenced a 67-year-old man who had suffered a stroke to a single day in prison, along with restrictions on computer use and registration as a sex offender. As part of a deal with prosecutors, the man had pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, which carries no mandatory sentence.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2010/5/22/13917/6616

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/29/debate-rages-over-severity-child-porn-sentences/

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According to von Dornum, the average sentence for a federal child pornography offense in 2010 was higher than for all other offenses except murder and kidnapping. Indeed, the average was about six months higher than for sexual abuse offenders.

So you are better off on average raping then having a CP picture by six months.

Then this fact........same link

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In one survey, over 70% of federal judges thought the five-year mandatory minimum for these child pornography "receipt" crimes was too long.

Or that.....

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(Judge) Rodgers urged the commission to propose repealing the mandatory minimum sentence for receipt of child porn
Lengthy terms of incarceration alone will not adequately address the harms of these offenders," she testified. "Greater reliance on the use of supervised release should be considered."

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New York-based federal defender Deirdre von Dornum told the Sentencing Commission there's insufficient evidence to prove a strong correlation. Child pornography offenders have a lower recidivism rate than child molesters, she said, and many could be safely monitored via supervised probation.

"Many of these individuals have stable employment, family support, and no prior contact with the criminal justice system," she said. "Punitive terms of imprisonment do nothing but weaken or destroy pro-social influences in their lives."

Still having a picture of a crime involving a child is a crime that get you on average six months more then raping someone dear heart and that is insane in any logic system.

An that is why no one in the first world is following our example in such long sentences for simple possession....

In one recent case, James L. Graham, a United States District Court judge in Ohio, sentenced a 67-year-old man who had suffered a stroke to a single day in prison, along with restrictions on computer use and registration as a sex offender. As part of a deal with prosecutors, the man had pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, which carries no mandatory sentence.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2010/5/22/13917/6616

And, if you don't violate the child pornography laws, you don't get any time in jail.

it as logical as saying if you did not wish for ten years in prison for being late in returning a library book you should had return it on time.

What's the matter, BillRM--can't you live without your illegal pornography

Ex-cop gets 30 years for massive child porn stash
By Guillermo Contreras
September 20, 2012

A former police officer who served 12 years for molesting a child was sentenced Thursday to another 30 years in federal prison for a child-pornography stash so large that agents had to stop counting the images.

Charles Leroy Earl, 65, was a police officer in Reno, Nev., for nine years until he was convicted there in 1985 of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old, one of three teens he was accused at the time of sexually assaulting.

Earl moved to Texas after his release from a Nevada prison and was living in New Braunfels, working as a self-employed computer systems administrator.

He didn't register as a sex offender when he moved to Texas.

On Oct. 4, 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents working on a national child-porn sweep raided his New Braunfels home and seized 10 computers, eight powerbooks, 61 hard drives, two digital cameras, and numerous compact disks and DVDs.

Investigators found a huge cache of child-porn images, but agents were told to stop counting because they already had amassed the evidence they needed and had to work on other cases that were backing up.

“It was enormous,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson said of the collection.

When Earl was first interviewed, “he admitted to the agents that they would find hundreds of thousands of child porn images. ... It's the largest amount that homeland security agents have ever seen in” South Texas.

His lawyer sought leniency, and Earl told the judge he wanted to teach others about computers.

Besides giving Earl the 30-year, no-parole sentence, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia also ordered him to serve a lifetime of supervision if he gets out of prison.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Ex-cop-gets-30-years-for-massive-child-porn-stash-3881008.php#ixzz278FajtID

My heart's not going to bleed for this man, who was just sentenced to 30 years, with no parole. Nor do I think the judge minded imposing the sentence.

His lawyer sought leniency, and Earl told the judge he wanted to teach others about computers.

Yet he did not know enough not to confess to anything, download this **** in a manner that his ISP address could be track back to him and then did not used such softwares as truecrypt, pgpdisk or bit locker to protected his drives when he was being crazy enough to have CPs on those drives with his record as a sex offender in the first place.

It's a pity he didn't know you isn't it? You'd've seen him right

I also love the idea of the Federal government now have a law/tool to fill up the prisons up with people who have drawing of 'underage' cartoon characters shown having sex..

The Government published a consultation on 1 April 2007, announcing plans to create a new offence of possessing a computer generated picture, cartoon or drawing with a penalty of three years in prison and an unlimited fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornography_depicting_minors

I had seen such drawings a few times and had always feel they was in bad taste...