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United states versus hess, a mandatory of 60 months. you had no discretion. united states versus nickerson, there was a mutual agreement to 120 months. that s what you imposed. in every other case, united states versus chazin, the prosecutor asked for 78 to 97 months. you imposed 28 months. 28 months is a 64% reduction. in united states versus cooper, the prosecutor asked for 72 months. you imposed 60 months. that was a 17% reduction. in united states versus downs, the prosecutor asked for 70 months. you imposed 60. that was a 14% reduction. the united states versus hawkins, the prosecutor asked for 24 months. you imposed three months. ....
Collecting behavior that they were causing significant harm. so judge jackson, all right, you raise your actual sentencing, and i think that s very productive. let s take a look at your actual sentencing. and you ve had ten different cases involving child pornography. these are the cases. there are two, u.s. versus butry and u.s. versus cann for which the government did not make a recommendation. you said earlier when chairman durbin was trying to pre-empt this line of attack, you said it s a sickening and egregious crime, which i very much agree with. and you said the guidelines lean to extreme departures. let s look at what the prosecutors are asking for. i would know this was in the district of columbia where prosecutors are far more liberal than many of the prosecutors in this country. and in every case in which united states versus hess there was i amandatory statutory ....
0 stems back decades and that is concerning. you wrote your note on the harvard law review on sex crimes. your note is your major academic work on the law review and yours is entitled prevention versus punishment: towards a principled distinction in the restraint of released sex offenders. and in it you argue, and i quote, a recent spate of legislation purports to regulate released sex offenders by requiring them to register with local law enforcement officials, notify community members of their presence, undergo dna testing and submit to civil commitment for an indefinite term. at many courts and commentators herald these laws as valid regulatory measures, others reject them as punitive enactments that violate the rights of individuals who have already been sanctioned for their crimes. under existing doctrine the constitutionality of sex offender statutes depends upon their characterization as essentially preventative rather than punitive. and what you go on to explain is if they ....
0 activism and advocacy as it concerns sexual predators that stems back decades and that is concerning. you wrote your note on the harvard law review on sex crimes. your note is your major academic work on the law review prevention versus punishment toward a principled distinction in the restraint in it you argue and i quote a recent spate of legislation reports to release sex offenders by requiring them to notify local law enforcement and submit to civil commitment for indefinite term. many say it violates the rights of individuals that have been sanctioned for their crimes. the contusionalty of sex offender statutes depends on their characterization as essentially preventsive rather than punitive. you explain if they re viewed an punitive, they re unconstitutional. if they re preventative, they are not. throughout the course of your note, you argue they should be viewed as punitive and therefore unconstitutional. indeed in the second to last page you go through each of those for ca ....