Defendant Charged With Thought Crime After Alleged Child Porn Revealed To Be Adult Porn

Ordered by the court to provide defendant with a copy of his hard drive, feds then charge him with a child porn offense.  Defendant’s expert discovers the alleged image is commercial adult porn involving Melissa Bertsch and Dave Cummings.  But feds refuse to drop the charge, claiming defendant thought it was child porn. 
This is the Hawaii case Bertsch mentions [...]

Alleged Child Porn Victims Identified—As Adults. Prosecutor Ignores Evidence, Insists They Are Pre-Teens, And Proceeds With Prosecution.

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For 4 years the State and its star witness, a medical professional, knew that 34 of 37 alleged child porn images were the copyrighted property of a well established adult web site operating out of Maryland.  For a year and a [...]

Gonzales, Mueller, McDade and Eichenwald: Did They Violate 18 USC 2252A?

On the last day of AG Alberto Gonzales’ fractured civil servant career, a diary was posted at DailyKos detailing how Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller handed out “pixellated” images of child porn to civillian business reps of Internet Service Providers in the spring of 2006.  The diary cites to, and quotes from, a 5th Circuit Appellate [...]