Of course— didn’t mean to imply that.

I do know of at least a couple of Federal judges who have spoken out against mandatory minimum sentences that remove their discretion in pornography cases. But that speaking out took the form of statements they made in the sentencing transcript and judgment order. Ultimately they had little influence on the collateral consequences to the defendants and their families. And it’s now been ten years since a Sentencing Commission survey of Federal judges found that a majority— 63% of them— already felt that mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography crimes were excessive.

I guess what I’m saying is, we all need to keep speaking out and (where possible) funding challenges, as a Federal District Court judge’s influence is only as good as the motions we put before them.

I’m pretty sure she’s consumed with her personal injustice right now. Maybe one day she might speak out about the bigger picture, but for the time being I think it’s best to let her grieve her loss.

Jacob
I’m sorry if you understood what I said in any way implied she deserved this. I don’t. But because of her position what she says has great power . She could speak up about not only her personal injustice but all who are receiving injustice because of laws that endanger them and there families.

Judge Salas did not deserve this and in any case has no discretion over our sex laws.

She has had to deal with Federal statutes, Federal mandatory minimum sentencing, Federal mandatory registration. Like many Federal judges, she may find those to be excessive, but from the bench she has few options. She certainly hasn’t convicted anyone of a sex crime unless she presided over a bench trial. Her job has been mostly to say what the law is.

And I think we can agree that most sex crimes on the Federal books are actual crimes and not just “so-called,” though I recognize that there will be exceptions in individual cases.

Overall, I think asking Judge Salas to use this tragedy as a reason to advocate for sex law reform, is a bit much at this time.

I appreciate the video and feel FAC is making good use of its message here.

This isn’t a “public information” issue anyway. If you know what a person does for a living and where they work, you can find out where they are and live. Personally, I think that is trivial to do. So this isn’t about that. The only people who might believe that are people who think Registries help people be safer. They live in Fantasyland.

Government and Registry Supporters/Terrorists (RS/Ts) intentionally list people on the very public Registries for the intentional purpose to get those people and their families harassed. That is intentional. So why should anyone care what is public and what isn’t?

I’d love to see the personal details of all people working in government put on a public Registry on a website for all to see. The problem is not that people can see the personal information, because a person intent on harming you can get that information regardless of if it is public or not. The problem is that big government and RS/Ts support a Hit List and have quite explicitly told the world that the families that are listed on it are sub-human and deserve harassment. That is the problem. They promote and encourage hate. That hate has certainly made the current pandemic in America a lot worse than it should have been. When you sow hate, your country burns. I am a little surprised the mass shootings seem to have slowed down though.

To judge Ester Salas
How many people have you convicted of a so called sex crime And ordered put on a registry that puts them and there families at risk just like you were. If it really hits home , then help do something about this.

Do some good.
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