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28 Dec

Kiddie porn – Fairfax criminal lawyer says police are constantly ferreting it out

Kiddie porn is so popular with a small sector of society that such consumers are willing to risk long prison terms in the process of accessing, viewing, distributing and even producing such material....

2017 / Criminal Defense

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27 Nov

Federal felony sentencing- Virginia criminal lawyer’s warning

Federal felony sentencing often is harsh, unless the prosecution requests leniency as part of plea negotiations, with that leniency request ordinarily connected to snitching/cooperation. As a Virginia criminal lawyer defending in state and federal court, I know that many federal felony convictions involve substantial mandatory...

2017 / Criminal Defense

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25 Oct

Child porn – Fairfax, Virginia criminal lawyer warns about sentencing

Child porn is a crime that garners revulsion and little immediate sympathy from judges, jurors, prosecutors and the public. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer who defends such cases in Virginia, I know how vital it is to humanize the client (as with all criminal cases)...

2017 / Criminal Defense

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24 Apr

Narrow tailoring is needed for restrictions on Internet access by probationers & parolees

Plenty of probation agents and sentencing judges may have a penchant for barring access to the Internet for certain convicted sex offenders, in such cases as sexual assault and child pornography. However, doing so in a knee-jerk fashion and without narrow tailoring violates a convicted...

2017 / Criminal Defense

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27 Dec

Virginia Court of Appeals okays SCOTUS-contradictory permissive inference of age for child pornography prosecution

Criminal defendants in child pornography cases do not get much sympathy, other than from consumers producers, and distributors of child pornography; civil liberties advocates; and criminal defense lawyers who represent such defendants. I fall in the latter two categories....

2016 / Criminal Defense / First Amendment

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12 Feb

The scandal at Maryland’s Judge Sylvania W. Woods Elementary School

At some point, the late Judge Sylvania Woods was honored by becoming the namesake of a Prince George's County, Maryland, elementary school. If he knew about this month's child pornography filming scandal there, he would be rolling in his grave, to say the least. ...

2016 / Criminal Defense / Jon's news & views

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01 Feb

Whether a time-served federal child pornography sentence will be disturbed on appeal

When a federal trial judge gives a very lenient-sounding sentence, the relevant federal appellate court may tell the trial judge to impose a harsher sentence....

2016 / Criminal Defense

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