Accidental Child Porn Download Leads to Jail Time

This young man isn't getting good advice from the public defender. He needs a different attorney. Isn't there a defending attorney out there that will step up and do some pro bono work?

right if they had that much of a problem with him downloading it, that would have went after him when it happened, not a year later. but i guess we can thank the shit assed government for using our tax money "EVENTUALLY" to keep kids safe.

I just want to tell him to keep fighting, my cousin is serving 17.5 yr for the same exact thing, He pled not guilty and received 5 yrs for perjury, He is an all American boy with no prior criminal record, he was about to join the marines, he had received a medal from our city for saving an older lady, and this is how our government treats him. Had he been an actual pedophile he would be in and out in a year to pry on more kids just like the actual pedophiles out there. This government is not concerned with the truth, just the numbers they put away. GOD help us all.

I posted earlier that I would pitch in for a good attorney to help this guy. I'm serious....Anyone else who is able to help, let me know. Need more info....Where this guy is being held; who defended him; contact information; etc...I will get the ball rolling myself if I have to.

you people are crazy if this man would have been mexican,black,or any other minority i bet the comments would have been alot different. This sick bastard is gulity of looking or having naked children on his computer. First he claims he never seen it then its a mistake from limewire which is it. He's clearly sick and needs help. Whats done in the dark always comes to the light

I feel that the FBI should of checked into this mans story and went after LIMEWIRE
If other people have investigated this website and it happened to them too, then maybe there is somthing illegal goin on there.

IT'S BETTER TO CONVICT ONE INNOCENT PERSON THAN TO LET 10 MEN Guilty Men go free

Sounds fishy to me. They don't send you to jail just for downloading something (that says nothing about child pornography) and deleting right it away. Must be more to the story. Don't believe everything you read just because you don't like the government. Think!

the problem is people making other people more and more ignorant, and an unsuspecting person gets screwd.

The average sentence for criminals convicted of rape in the United States (and released in 1992) is 117 months. The average time served is 65 months, which equates to 56 percent of the actual sentence served. For crimes of sexual assault, the average sentence is 72 months, and the average time served is 35 months, equating to 49 percent of time served. (Greenfeld, Lawrence A., 1995, "Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence," page 1, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

That's right, fact is a real rapist would go to jail 10 years less than this poor boy... The FBI could be solving real crime instead they are doing shit like this.

Um Sue...yes they do, all the time. read www.justice4matt.com, if the site is still operational. Or, google matt bandy since his story was covered in several news papers and other media.

Be concerned. Be very concerned.

The Government needs to keep the clients coming to all the massive jails they've built. How else are they going to pay for them?
It's quite a sideline industry they've built up over the years.
As if looking a picture or smoking a plant should ever have been illegal.
Do you really think you are "free"?

This is supposedly a free country. He should be able to download whatever he wants without having to worry that he will go to prison. If they had reason to suspect he is a pedophile, and if they had found child porn stored on his computer where he could access it, then yeah, bust his ass, but, this could happen to anyone. I have stumbled on porn sites more than once searching for something completely innocent. None of them have been kiddie porn, but, I can see how it could happen.

This guy should NOT plead guilty unless he IS guilty. He should fire the lawyer who advised him to do that. What a nightmare.

Um Sue...yes they do, all the time. read www.justice4matt.com, if the site is still operational. Or, google matt bandy since his story was covered in several news papers and other media.

Be concerned. Be very concerned.

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Terri,

Jefferson may have said that but the doctrine is that of Sir William Blackstone. It is called the "Blackstone ratio", and sadly it is not being adhered to most anywhere in this country. There is an excellent law review on point, google the phrase "nGuilty Men" and enjoy the read.

Come on! This dude should not be punished if NO criminal intent was present. The website company that redirected him to child pornography should be held accountable.

However, (I am a little bit ignorant) if he downloaded it that would seem intentional; yet what he downloaded was not supposed to be child pornograpghy? If a crazy pop up comes up and you X it out is that the same as if it were downloaded? It is still somewhere in your computor!

Can someone explain this computer world to me?

I bet all of us commenting on this matter is being placed in FBI files as I type.