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

The issue is that people are actually being sentenced to far lower terms than the Federal minimum guideines ostensibly impose. And that's the issue you choose to overlook.

monitor him for a decade or so and mandate treatment instead of throwing his life away.

In effect, this law is an effort at thought control.
The Founders woud have been aghast.

People can think about anything they want, including pedophilic fantasies of sex with with children,
that's quite different than possessing the actual material of child pornography.

Is thinking about having an arsenol of automatic weapons and hundreds of guns,
or thinking about having a large stash of cocaine or heroin, the same as actually possessing those items?

No one's thoughts are being controlled.

I'm not joining you in being a bleeding heart for pedophiles.

You like it when the state chops citizens off at the knees on a whim and an emotional appeal.

As I said, I'm not joining you in being a bleeding heart for pedophiles.

So Hawkeye, do you believe that the state should be allowed to execute a man when there is DNA evidence that could exonerate him, or do you think that the execution should be stayed until the DNA evidence has been examined?

More search warrants released on child porn case of ex-professor
By Roxana Orellana
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Jan 20 2012 08:51PM
Updated Jan 22, 2012 12:36AM

Three more search warrants were released Friday in connection with the investigation of former University of Utah professor Grant Douglas Smith, who was arrested and charged with viewing explicit child pornography on a Utah-to-Boston flight in November.

Detectives with the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained information from Smith’s Gmail and Facebook accounts, two computer towers, two laptops, two hard drives, MP3 player, DVDs and CDs.

The search warrants were executed Dec. 12 and Dec. 14. Information on the online accounts were obtained from Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. The towers, laptops and other items were seized from a Murray condominium. The warrant does not specified who the condo belongs to.

"There is probable cause to believe that the gmail.com account belonging to or used by Grant Smith was used to contact other people for the sharing of child pornography," states one of the warrants made public in 3rd District Court on Friday.

Smith, 47, was arrested in late November after a Delta airline passenger said he saw Smith, who was sitting in first class, viewing child pornography on his laptop computer while the plane was en route to Boston.

At the time of the arrest, Smith was divorcing his wife — the divorce was expected to be final by Nov. 28 — and he had moved into the Cottonwood Heights condo during their divorce proceedings. Investigators allege Smith was residing with his girlfriend at the residence.

According to the search warrants, Utah investigators became aware of the child-pornography allegations Nov. 26 after a Massachusetts state trooper called to tell them about Smith. The trooper told Utah investigators that Smith had given him permission to search his MacBook computer and iPhone, and authorities found evidence of child pornography on his laptop, the search warrants state. The pornographic images allegedly from a paid site showed naked girls, ages 5 to 10, engaging in sexual activity with adult males, according to the warrants. Smith told investigators he started deleting pornographic images on his computer during the flight because he was "bored," the warrants state.

Utah task force members first executed a search warrant at Smith’s Country Wood Circle condo on Nov. 28.

Massachusetts’ authorities worried Smith would ask his girlfriend to destroy evidence at the condo, that search warrants said. During that search, Utah police seized a computer, two hard drives, a cellphone, undeveloped film, an iPod, a video recorder, a camera and a telephone bill, according to the warrant.

The December warrants have much of the same information as the Nov. 28 warrant. They state that Smith confessed to trading pornographic images of "teens" with others via the internet.

Smith, considered one of the top professors in the world in the field of molecular engineering, resigned from his position following the arrest.

University of Utah police started its own investigation into Smith after learning of his arrest. The warrants claim the university police were looking for any items that might contain evidence but that were owned by the university. The warrants did not state if any such items were found and if they were turned over to investigators.

Smith was reported to have bailed out of a Massachusetts jail in early December. His next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 28.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53343595-78/smith-warrants-search-utah.html.csp

Warrant reveals disturbing details about U. professor's alleged porn involvement
By Hunter Schwarz
January 20th, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators suspect a University of Utah professor charged with viewing child pornography while flying on an airplane "is attracted" to young girls between 5 and 7 years old, a newly-released search warrant states...

Smith apparently obtained child pornography from a paid website and downloaded images of girls as young as 5 years old, the search warrant states. Investigators said they also found images on his cellphone of fully-clothed young girls that were taken from parks and airports.

"It appears that Smith is attracted to female children ages 5-7 based on the images they found on his iPhone and computer ..." the warrant states...
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=18950067

So do you think that a man should spend the rest of his life in jail when there is DNA evidence that could exonerate him?

Three more search warrants were released Friday in connection with the investigation of former University of Utah professor Grant Douglas Smith, who was arrested and charged with viewing explicit child pornography on a Utah-to-Boston flight in November

For the most part I believe that the innocent in our jails should stay there, as a testament to what happens when the citizens allow the state to become corrupt and abusive

For the most part I believe that the innocent in our jails should stay their, as a testament to what happens when the citizens allow the state to become corrupt and abusive. We cant save everyone, we must concentrate our efforts on where they would do the most good for the most people.

So do you think that a man should spend the rest of his life in jail when there is DNA evidence that could exonerate him?

. . . We have a supreme obligation to right America
before we hand it over to our kids,

and that mission takes priority over obtaining justice for the many innocent who sit in our jails, . . .

Yet, it appears that he is one of the men that should be locked up..

It just shows how full of holes his position is. He's not interested in justice, but like Bill, only in what affects him. He's already got a martyrdom complex, and he's self-centred enough to let others be the actual martyrs.