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....
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...
Statutory rape prosecutions are risked at the Virginia state level whenever an adult engages in sex with a minor, whether or not the defendant knew the minor was a minor. At the federal level, a prosecution for sex trafficking requires that the defendant “knew, or...
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)...
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...
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....
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. ...
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....
