Forensic Computer Experts Larry Daniel, Lars Daniel, and Jake Green from Envista Forensics cover child pornography cases and how experts can help you win your case. Topics include issues related to common social media platforms in child pornography cases, such as Omegle, Discord, Whisper, and Kik, the FBI’s use of undercover covert employees, discovery issues that can turn cases around, and how an expert can help reduce that production case into receipt or possession.

Presented by Mark Satawa of Satawa Law, PLLC, and Mark Mahoney of Harrington and Mahoney

In recent years, the government has increasingly turned to hacking as an investigative technique. Specifically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has begun deploying malware: software designed to infiltrate and control, disable, or surveil a computer’s use and activity.

We write to express our continued opposition to S. 3951, the PROTECT Act of 2022. In addition to creating a new five-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for possession of child pornography, the bill would make certain federal sentencing guidelines mandatory, reversing almost two decades of reform ushered in by United States v. Booker.  The bill would resurrect the failed and disproportionately severe sentencing policies of the past, with no corresponding benefit to public safety. We urge you to oppose it.

We are writing to express our strong opposition to S. 3951, the PROTECT Act of 2022. In addition to creating a new 5-year federal mandatory minimum prison sentence for possession of child pornography, the bill would overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Booker and make certain federal sentencing guidelines mandatory. The bill would signal a return to failed policies of the past and threaten to undo all the progress you have made together to restore discretion and proportionality to federal sentencing.

Letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding USSC priorities in the current (2014) amendment cycle.

Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding proposed amendments to the sentencing guidelines.

Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing ("CAN-SPAM") Act of 2003.

Guide for Child Porn Cases - There are common issues with child pornography cases that can be dealt with to make the case go more smoothly for you and your client.

Probationary Sentences in Child Porn Cases, List updated September 2017.

This month Gail Gianasi Natale reviews The One-Eyed Judge by Michael Ponsor.

A spreadsheet of cases involving possession of child pornography, includes charges and motion decisions. 

In The Superior Court of [Redacted] County State of Georgia, Petitioner Randall William Nowill v. [Redacted] 

Explore law and sentencing issues in the child pornography context.

Trial court amicus curiae memorandum submitted by NACDL arguing that the provision of the Adam Walsh Child Protection Act of 2006 restricting a criminal defendant’s access to evidence relevant to his or her defense in child pornography prosecutions (18 U.S.C. § 3509(m)) violates a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment confrontation, compulsory process and effective assistance of counsel rights and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law.