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Kiddie porn: Risky to ignore

By "eAdvocate"

12-18-2009 National:From: "In the news by Karen Franklin"Let's say you are a defense attorney assigned a criminal case that has nothing to do with sex. A garden-variety case of robbery and murder. No rape, no pedophilia, nothing sexual at all.You might want to think about sex, anyway.In a case out of Missouri, the high court ruled that it was reversible error for the defense attorney not to have checked out the child pornography on the murder victim's computer.What relevance does that have to murder, you might ask?Not much. The defendant, Mark Gill, and a buddy kidnapped Ralph Lape from his home in 2002, bound him with plastic ties and duct tape, and murdered him in a corn field. The motive was financial gain: Gill had learned that Lape had a large amount of money in his bank account...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).