Category Archives: Internet Sex Crimes

Aug 12 2016

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Is a Government Agent For Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure Purposes

In 1984, the U.S. Congress established the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The organization was reauthorized by the Congress and the…

Jul 31 2016

Double Jeopardy Found in Child Pornography Case

There is this rule of law—dating back to 1932 when the U.S. Supreme Court first pronounced it—that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S.…

Jul 13 2016

Sentence for Distribution of Child Porn Vacated by Fifth Circuit

LimeWire is a file-sharing program that uses “peer-to-peer” (P2P) technology. LimeWire allows its users to share digital files through an Internet-based network called the…

May 15 2016

The Digital War: The Right to Privacy Versus Law Enforcement’s Need to Know

Let us make one thing clear: law enforcement does not, nor will it ever, respect an individual’s right to privacy. The police in this…

Mar 16 2016

Courts Expanding Definition of “Lascivious Exhibition” in Child Pornography Cases

There is no doubt that Melvin Hubert Holmes took videos of his teenage stepdaughter in various stages of undress without her knowledge. The images…

Jan 27 2016

FBI in the Child Pornography Business Again

Several years ago we posted a piece about the FBI seizing and continuing to run a child pornography website between November 16, 2012 and December 2,…

Dec 18 2015

12 Year Sentence in Child Pornography Case Vacated Due to Court’s Failure to Give Statement of Reasons

John Bradley, the once stout and irreplaceable district Attorney of Williamson County, is like the inexorable march of time—he keeps moving and moving, never…