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posted by turmis
on Sunday October 20, @08:02AM
from the but-did-you-know-if-the-pictures-were-real?? dept.
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York vacated a guilty plea on Friday. Brian Reily pled guilty to recieving child pornography on June 17. However, the judge decided that in light of
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (opinion) The Defendant was not guilty of all the elments of the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA). Specifically, the judge stated that Reily had not been asked whether he knew the images were of real children and not computer generated simulations.
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