U.S. v. Thompson (9th Cir. - Feb. 10, 2025)

People might have differential reactions as to which prong of the following equation is the more erroneous of the two, but I feel fairly strongly that at least one of the prongs is wrong:

Part I: Lamar Thompson gets convicted in state court of child molestation of someone under 12 years old -- presumably (though the opinion doesn't expressly say so), his 10-year old stepdaughter and his friend's 8-year old daughter) -- and is sentenced to serve a year in prison. (An additional 68 months of the sentence was suspended.)

Part II: After his release from prison, a co-worker finds videos on Thompson's phone of him molesting his 10-year old stepdaughter and his friend's 8-year old daughter. That's child pornography. For which he gets sentenced, this time in federal court, to 28 years in prison.

So he gets sentenced to one year in prison for actually molesting the kids, but 28 years in prison for taking a video of it.

Doesn't exactly seem like the correct ratio, eh?