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U.S. v. Johnson, No. 4:07-cr-00127 (S.D.Iowa) (588 F.Supp.2d 997) (December 4, 2008) (Judge Robert W. Pratt)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists January 26, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Lack of Empirical Support for Guidelines Sentence.

Here the Court rejected as unreasonble and excessive the lengthy sentences recommended by the Guidelines for child pornography downloading cases, finding such sentences were unsupported by empirical data and not reflective of the will of the people.

In 2003, an FBI agent searching the Internet for child pornographers, discovered that ...

 

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