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ttd_76 t1_j9ig7z7 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:56 AM

Reply to comment by gentleghosts in Former owner, chef of Rogue Gentlemen gets 9 years for child porn by Early_District_2796

>2012 ussc suggestions to congress would still pin johnny to the mat. the enhancements they suggest in one of the three areas is based on type of content, volume in possession, age of the victims, types of misconduct depicted, and how they’ve organized and maintained the collection over time.

What USSC has always suggested is that these enhancements need to be revised because virtually everyone gets hits with them. It means that the 5 year minimum is pointless because no one actually ever gets the minimum.

It's basically technology. In 1985, if you had 15,000 pirated songs in your possession, you were seriously into it in a way that was not just like personal hobby use. By 2005, it was pretty common to have that many songs. You can just hop on a torrent and get thousands of videos or images, legal or illegal. You just download a motherlode of stuff and watch/play/listen to what you want.

There is a minimum 5 year penalty for receiving child porn. There is no minimum for possession. But if you did not produce the porn, but you have it, you must have somehow received it. So everyone starts at 5 years.

And because no one is perusing everything and collecting one item at a time, and just downloading big torrents or whatever, they automatically get stuck with several enhancements. So now the real minimum is not 5 years, it's closer to 10. This is all stupid.

>oh baby, the hill you are choosing to die on tonight is sus.

Maybe. But I guess I will die on this hill along with Ketanji Brown Jackson and the majority of criminal judges in the US.

exposechefjohnny t1_j9josz0 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM

Once again comparing apples to giraffes here. Downloading pirated music is not equal to downloading photos and videos of children being exploited and abused. And everyone is aware that people who like to exploit other people often put themselves in positions of power, like Catholic priests and IDK maybe CRIMINAL JUDGES?

I wish I knew who you are @ttd, I sure as fuck hope you don't work with children.

ttd_76 t1_j9kbmbr wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM

This came up in the Ketanji Brown Jackson case. Go back and rewatch the hearings or re-read some of the articles that were written at the time.

Most judges don't follow the sentencing guidelines and typically deviate by around 60 months. In the majority of cases where KBJ was accused of being soft on child porn for giving light sentences, she was following the recommendation of the probation officer and the prosecuting attorney.

So just consider which is more likely-- that the majority of judges and attorneys including KBJ are secret kiddie diddlers or that the sentencing guidelines are fucked and Josh Hawley is a flaming asshole?