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My bet would be to up the sentence. Go from 2 counts of CP to 200 - 5 years in jail to life sentence.



Doesn't that bring the question back to the 5th amendment on the other 198 counts?


But then that seems to undermine the whole argument, because they actually are requiring the suspect to incriminate himself.


Each photo in possession is a separate crime and they, presumably, know about and want a single photo. However different legal doctrines say, if they find more in the normal course of events, they are now admissible and can be used to create new charges.


> However different legal doctrines say, if they find more in the normal course of events, they are now admissible and can be used to create new charges.

Sure, but that's not the case here. They apparently already know he possesses a certain number of such photos, and now are now trying to compel him to incriminate himself further.




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