Court appears fractured in child pornography mandatory minimum case

Judging from this morning’s oral argument in Lockhart v. United States, which involves the correctness of a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for a federal child pornography possession conviction, the result was not close to being decided as the Justices went into their Conference. Not only is it unclear who will win, it is unclear what rationale would be used to support

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Shocking Numbers of Police Officers Have Committed Sex Crimes

The AP unveils a startling truth after spending a year investigating incidents of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement. After spending a year investigating cases of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, the Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges between 2009 and 2014 for wrongdoings ranging from rape and sodomy to sexual assault and possession of child pornography.

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Fight Back!!!

In 2011, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office conducted the “Operation SpiderWeb” sex sting. The big news story in the Orlando Sentinel on November 1, 2011 began, “Fifty people — including a Disney employee, a youth pastor and a federal corrections officer — have been arrested in an online child-sex sting that the Orange County Sheriff’s Office calls Operation SpiderWeb, investigators

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