by blogger James R. Marsh Despite Congress’ longstanding mandate that each and every federal child pornography defendant pay restitution to victims, in reality the vast majority of convicted child pornography criminals pay no restitution at all. As I wrote here ...
United States District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., in one of the first reported cases since the Supreme Court’s April 23, 2014 decision in United States v. Paroline, illustrates the growing frustration within the federal courts which are struggling to ...
Last week, another federal district court struggling to implement the Supreme Court’s decision in Paoline admonished Congress to fix the law. In a child pornography restitution case, Chief Judge Anne L. Aiken of the United States District Court for the ...
On June 5, 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals—in the first federal circuit court ruling since the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Paroline in April—held that a child pornography defendant is not liable for a victim’s ...
From the Congressional Record Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today I will introduce legislation that will help victims of one of the most vicious crimes and one of the most evil crimes in our society: child pornography. When Congress enacted the ...
Lawmakers Introduce the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act to Strengthen Restitution Process for Victims U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), current member ...
A federal statute (18 U.S.C. §2259) requires that, in child sexual exploitation cases, a defendant must pay restitution for “the full amount of the victim’s losses.” That works for crimes in which a defendant directly causes specific harm to a ...