Minnesota’s county attorneys think a newly defined aggravating crime factor, child pornography with kids under age 13, should be treated more severely than the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission is contemplating.

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A former sheriff's deputy in Texas faces up to 40 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a child-pornography investigation with ties to Wisconsin.

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Democratic candidate for governor Kathleen Vinehout is defending a character reference letter she wrote for a legislative attorney found guilty of possessing child pornography.

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Is a tip to law enforcement from Tumblr.com equivalent to a tip from an anonymous police informant or a tip from an identified citizen informant?

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An appeals court says internet service providers' child pornography tips are reliable enough to justify search warrants.

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Two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin say it's not against state law to solicit sexually explicit photographs of children but clearly should be.

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In a case that lies at the intersection of child-pornography law and restitution law, the Court of Appeals concluded that the mother of a victim of child pornography could not obtain restitution from an offender.

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A mother doesn't deserve restitution from a man convicted of viewing pornographic photos of her young daughter because she didn't lose income as a result of his actions, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

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FBI agents investigating a potential data leak at Boeing obtained a secret warrant to search the home computers of a company manager in California for evidence they hoped would connect him to Chinese economic espionage.

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A federal grand jury has indicted an Appleton man for possessing and distributing child pornography.

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On the same day that Rebecca Bradley was appointed to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals released her first appellate opinion that has been recommended for publication.

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A Madison man accused of trading child pornography with others will spend eight years in federal prison.

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A Wisconsin man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court in Maine to transporting child pornography.

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A Milwaukee man who police consider a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for child pornography and keeping a drug house.

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A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a Green Bay man accusing him of coercing girls to appear in his pornographic videos.

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A businessman from western Wisconsin has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading no contest to sexually abusing children.

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A 25-year-old woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing child pornography that she made of herself engaging in sexual conduct with her toddler son.

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A Bangor man is facing at least six years in prison following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl and videotaping the attack.

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A judge says a Wisconsin man convicted in a child pornography case in North Dakota must pay $3,250 to one of the victims.

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Newly released records show the state Department of Justice suspended an employee for failing to forward tips about child pornography to supervisors.

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A judge has sentenced a Darlington man to 25 years in federal prison for making sexually explicit videos of girls.

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Federal prosecutors say a Milwaukee man convicted of possessing child pornography has been sentenced to 40 years.

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A former Wisconsin Department of Justice supervisor who was fired for letting dozens of online child pornography cases to languish reached a settlement with the state Wednesday that calls for Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to apologize to him.

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Milwaukee County officials properly forced a former airport deputy director out of his job because he was viewing pornography and using his work computer to set up dates, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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The former supervisor of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Milwaukee office allowed nearly four dozen Internet child pornography cases to languish for months, agency officials said in his termination letter.

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A Wisconsin Justice Department agent and her supervisor have lost their jobs after an internal investigation found they let child pornography cases languish for months, allowing at least one suspect to allegedly sexually assault a child before he was apprehended, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Wednesday.

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Court records show that in at least two cases, the Wisconsin Department of Justice took years to act on detailed and credible tips about online child pornography.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are struggling to determine how mandatory statutory damages to victims of child pornography should be allocated among those convicted of possessing and viewing the material, and what proof is required to establish liability.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a woman legally consented to a police search that led to her boyfriend's conviction on a child pornography charge.

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A federal magistrate in Milwaukee has ordered a West Allis man to provide readable versions of encrypted hard drives seized from his home as part of a child-porn investigation.

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