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A 12-year-old committing a sexual act. so as the government said in this case, i'm quoting from the transcript, 17 videos is a lot. and some of the videos, including the one in the statement. offense, and i just related some of them, are very lengthy and include numerous images, numerous views, styles collages. you see the act in progress. the government described some of them as saddo masochistic. this was a tough case. you were referencing it earlier. these cases are terrible. this is one of them. terrible stuff. not a good guy doing this stuff. the guidelines recommendation was 97 to 121 mo...

That the statutes include with the requirements that congress has set forward. unwarranted sentencing disparities is something that the sentencing commission has been focused on for a long time in regard to child pornography offenses. all the offenses are horrible. all the offenses are egregious. but the guidelines, as you pointed out, are being departed from even with respect to the government's recommendation. the government in this case, and in others, has asked for a sentence that is substantially less than the guideline penalty. so what i was discussing was that phenomenon. that the guide...

The prosecutor in this case, in d.c., you're on the federal district court. the prosecutor in this case, a liberal administration. i think it is fair to say, in the state of texas. the prosecutor in this case nevertheless still asked for two full years in prison. you gave the defendant three months. the guidelines called for ten years. the prosecutor wanted at least two. you gave him three months. when did you, you made a number of arguments and statements on the record and i would love to go through some of them. i've read them all. the first argument you made was that the federal guidelines ...

Exploited, in this kind of material. i don't understand you saying to him that they're peers. and that therefore, you were viewing sex acts between children not much younger than you and that is somehow a reason to only give him three months. help me understand this. >> senator, i don't have the record of that entire case in front of me. what i recall with respect to that case is that unlike the many other child pornography offenders that i had seen as a judge and that i was aware of in my work on the sentencing commission, this particular defendant had just graduated from high school. and som...