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Category: Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
Political scandals tend to always have a sordid beginning. That is the nature of the “porngate” scandal currently rocking Pennsylvania’s judicial and political systems at their core.
Sandusky Surfaces Again
Ironically enough porngate has its origins in the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official website for DHS says its mission is “to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.”
Department…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Roughly, 95 to 97 percent of federal defendants plead guilty. Perhaps that explains why criminal trials, and their ensuing verdicts, attract the most public attention and scrutiny.
Sentencing is treated like some inconsequential procedural necessity when in most cases,…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines § 2G2.2(b)(4) authorizes a four-level enhancement in child pornography cases when the images possessed or distributed portray sadistic conduct or depictions of violence, which means additional years on top of what is already a very significant term…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
A little over a decade ago, the New York Times called the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals—which encompasses North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland—“the most aggressively conservative federal appeals courts in the nation.”
Time has its…
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Last year U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced the federal government’s intention to investigate and prosecute cases of child pornography, regardless of the scale of individual involvement. This includes simple possession of child pornography by individuals.
Homeland Security Cracks…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
On September 23, 2015, the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Schofield added a new offense in the definition to the Sex Offender and Registration Act (SORNA).
Enacted in 2006, SORNA is codified in Sections 16901 through 16962 of…
Category: Illegal Pornography
Juries don’t always get it right, especially in extremely prejudicial cases involving allegations of sex crimes involving children. But, sometimes, just sometimes, an appeals court is forced, “after reviewing all the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution,”…
Category: Illegal Pornography | Uncategorized
Whether Yuri Bershchansky possessed child pornography in November 2010 in violation of Section 2252 (a) (4) (B) and (b) (2) of Title 28, United States Code, will never be truly known.
Why?
The Department of Homeland Security, in…
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
According to ComputerWorld, a peer-to-peer (P2P) network is created “when two or more PCs are connected and share resources without going through a separate server computer.” Some estimates say that peer-to-peer networks account for anywhere from 43% to 70%…
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