Prosecutors Move to Seize House in Child Pornography Case

Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Kentucky don't just want to put Joseph Robert Leitner in prison for years. The federal government wants his house. Leitner, 62, pleaded guilty last week to charges that he possessed more than 30,000 images of child pornography, and he agreed to give up his home in the Chevy Chase subdivision of Lexington, court records show. The property forfeiture marked the first time that prosecutors in the Eastern District of Kentucky have seized a home in a child pornography investigation. The forfeiture of houses more often occurs in drug prosecutions. “He used his house as a protective shield to allow his ...

XOb (Child Porn a Family Affair)

Child pornography is a family affair - victims seven times more likely to be exploited by parents than strangers Link

Sotomayor on Child Porn – U.S. v. Falso

Judge Sotomayor's ruling in this recently decided child pornography case might be an issue in her upcoming confirmation hearing. The defendant, Jon David Falso (shown at right), is also the first target in our firm's effort to seek civil damages for victims of child pornography utilizing Masha's Law, the legislation we helped create in 2006. A civil trial is scheduled for February 2010. The defendent's attorney in our case vows a fight to the Supreme Court possibly giving a newly confirmed Justice Sotomayor another chance to consider the case of confessed and convicted child pornographer Jon David Falso.

Express Observation (Pedo-Polanski Whitewash)

Great piece on Salon.com called Whitewashing Roman Polanski on why pedo-Polanski should not be given leniency Link

A New Frontier for Victims of Child Pornography

Lest anyone think that all I do is sit around and pontificate all day, our law firm has actual clients with some groundbreaking issues. Yesterday, a federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut established a "new frontier" in favor of exploited children when he ordered a wealthy former Pfizer executive to pay about $200,000 to our client, a girl whose images the executive had obtained through the Internet from another collector of child pornography. The ruling, the first of its kind in the country, comes against Alan Hesketh, a man who downloaded, viewed and traded child pornography, but had no actual contact with any of the victims. Since October, ...

Express Observation (Judge Disbarred for Child Porn)

Disbarment Urged for NJ Judge Convicted of Child Porn and Sex Trafficking Link http://twitter.com/jamesmarshlaw/statuses/1149358876

Child Rape Death Penalty Case Dies

I know that I am once again courting controversy on this topic, but here it goes anyway. Last week the Supreme Court declined to reconsider its controversial June ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana which sounded the death knell for the death penalty for child rape. As you might recall, the Court based much of its reasoning on the emerging "national consensus" that the death penalty for rape is wrong. What no one seemed to realize at the time, however, was that Congress passed a law in 2006 specifically allowing the death penalty for child rapists under military law. Once Louisiana discovered this oversight they petitioned the Court for a rare re-hear...

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