riowanderer

OK > ONE final time for the HARD OF THINKING!:( Please really really really read this carefully and in a totally sober frame of mind > FEDERAL COURT maximum and minimum sentencing guidelines DO NOT vary from State to State > HOWEVER, FEDERAL Court judges in each separate State DO have latitude and discretion in applying those uniform maximum and minimum sentencing guideline ranges > AND GUESS WHAT CUPCAKE?? It turns out that in STATES which have the toughest STATE prison sentences for child porn crimes, FEDERAL COURT judges in those specific States with the toughest STATE penalties, actually DO tend use their LATITITUDE & DISCRETION to sentence criminals charged with felony child porn charges to the MAXIMUM higher range of those uniform FEDERAL sentencing guidelines! > LOL...is this really such a difficult point to grasp intellectually??:):)

Lord give me strength!: FEDERAL sentencing guidelines DO NOT vary from State to State > yup obviously! The POINT correctly being made here is that how those MINIMUM-MAXIMUM sentencing guidelines are actually decided upon by a Judge DOES vary depending on the specific STATE > Please do more factual research on this specific question > The broad Federal guidelines ARE the same BUT there is LATITUDE & DISCRETION for Judges in sentencing which can and does obviously vary from Judge to Judge AND from State by State

LOL > but as I'm sure you know very well, FEDERAL Court sentencing can and most certainly does vary from STATE to State > so it is deadly relevant to point out that NEW YORK STATE has some of the harshest prison sentences for FELONY Child Porn charges. Thanks for pointing that out!:)

LOL > in my day back in the 1920's we actually took the time to research stuff, but not you whacky, porn-loving "cyber kids" today!:(:(:(

Does no-one bother to do even some quick Google research on this subject?!:) "Austin Wolf" has been charged in NY with two FEDERAL felony counts of possession and the far more serious charge of possession > hundreds of images and videos. some of which involve children under 12 being brutally raped which is MAJOR serious mitigating factor New York has some of the most severe minimum prison sentencing guidelines in the entire USA for child pornography There have now been 6+ continuances granted by various Judges so far since Wolf's arrest last June, as both sides continue ostensibly to discuss a possible plea deal > not surprising at all since the vast majority of Federal child pornography cases are settled out of Court BUT > you can bet IF the current "plea deal" on the table was half-way decent, Wolf's lawyers would've recommended he take it! The Feds obviously have a rock-solid case against this scum-bag and aren't offering him an such sweet plea deal! And if you review other similar cases in NY and across the USA for both distribution and possession, involving this same major volume of images and videos, with kids under 12 being brutalized, you'll find that that the best-case FEDERAL plea deals tend to fall in the 13-20+ year minimum sentence range > with 85% of sentence required to be served before parole eligibility I would be shocked IF the BEST plea deal offered right now was anything much less than 15 years minimum best-case > also according to several child porn lawyer blogs I've researched > with parole eligibility in 13 years Which is exactly why Austin Wolf and his lawyers haven't jumped at anything else > cuz the minute they reject the motion of continuance, his court appearance will take place, a trial date scheduled, and his prison sentence fate will be in the hands of an actual Judge who must follow the likely even more harsh minimum / maximum Federal sentencing guidelines!