HB1071: Child pornography; mandatory minimum terms of confinement for possession thereof.

Chief Patron

Del. Matt Lohr (R-26)

Status

Bill is Dead

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Summary

Child pornography; penalties.  Adds the following mandatory minimum terms of confinement for possession of child pornography: six months for each sexually explicit visual material possessed by the defendant and one year if the child depicted is age 13 or younger, and one year for a second or subsequent offense. For the crime of distribution of child pornography the following mandatory minimum terms of confinement are added: one year for each sexually explicit visual material distributed and two years if the child depicted in such material is age 13 or younger. A provision is added that the mandatory minimum sentence run consecutively with any other sentence.   View Full Text »