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Playing catch-up to bloggers on child-porn story

By Mark Obbie

Amir Efrati's story in the Journal today takes a look at a law-enforcement controversy that's been percolating for some time, and that has received heavy attention already by law bloggers. Noting a growing judicial backlash against mandatory-minimum sentences for downloading child pornography, Efrati quotes judges and advocates on both sides while using Justice Department stats to good effect. One expert he quotes, Douglas Berman, is one of the more prominent bloggers who's paid attention to questions about how harsh is too harsh when punishing men (obviously they're mostly men) who download images but are not caught abusing children. Berman posted about the Journal story, at his Sentencing Law and Policy blog, with links to his past commentary on this topic. Another blog that's tracked the issue is Corey Rayburn Yung's Sex Crimes blog, which hasn't yet weighed in on Efrati's story but has an archive of past comments.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).