Prison Justice
Will former prime administrative choose be third Oregon legal professional to obtain probation in a toddler porn case?
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A Might 11 sentencing date has been set for Oregon’s former prime administrative regulation choose after his responsible plea to encouraging little one sexual abuse in a child pornography case.
The previous choose, John Michael Mann, agreed to the responsible plea in a March 3 plea change petition, in keeping with a put up by blogger Stephanie Volin on Medium. A web based information search reveals Mann pleaded responsible to 10 counts of encouraging little one sexual abuse in Washington County, Oregon.
“I unlawfully and knowingly possessed visible recordings of sexually specific conduct involving kids with intent to show these recordings,” Mann mentioned within the plea change petition. He acknowledged “being conscious of and consciously disregarding the truth that creation of these recordings concerned little one abuse.”
Mann was arrested in March 2022. He went on unpaid go away from his place as chief administrative regulation choose, the place he dealt with instances principally involving unemployment claims and little one assist. Mann was positioned on interim suspension from the bar on March 31.
Mann’s court-appointed lawyer within the legal case, Lawrence L. Taylor, advised the ABA Journal he’ll search an “non-obligatory probation sentence” based mostly on the punishment given in comparable instances.
“Twice within the latest previous,” Taylor mentioned, “Oregon licensed attorneys have been charged with an an identical quantity and kind of prices. … In each of these instances, based mostly upon a presentence investigation report and advice, the court docket imposed what we check with as an non-obligatory probation sentence—the place the sentencing pointers name for a time period of imprisonment however the court docket based mostly on sure standards … determines {that a} probationary sentence is extra more likely to shield the pursuits of the general public and reform the convicted particular person.”
The choose within the two previous instances was Andrew Erwin, in keeping with another Medium post by Volin. Erwin can be the choose in Mann’s case.