Viewing child porn on the Web 'legal' in New York, state appeals court finds

[Chris_]

Viewing child porn on the Web 'legal' in New York, state appeals court finds

Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.

The decision rests on whether accessing and viewing something on the Internet is the same as possessing it, and whether possessing it means you had to procure it. In essence, the court said no to the first question and yes to the second.

"Merely viewing Web images of child pornography does not, absent other proof, constitute either possession or procurement within the meaning of our Penal Law," Senior Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick wrote for a majority of four of the six judges.

MSNBC

Sick, sick, sick.

[thundley4]

found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache

If they were on the computer and available without internet access, then the person had procured them. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hopefully the Feds will pick this one up, if they aren't too busy figuring out what they're going to do to Zimmerman if he beats the State charges.

[JohnnyReb]

Does judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick have any young underage daughters and has she posted nude/porno photo/video of them on the net? I'm asking for a friend at the DUmp..[DU/pedo/mode]