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PROTECT Act Prosecutions

Prosecutions under the PROTECT Act for virtual child pornography, including the convictions of Dwight Whorley and Christopher Handley, and the impact of the Supreme Court's Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition decision.

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What federal prosecutions have used the PROTECT Act to convict people for animated or virtual child pornography?

Federal prosecutors have used the to obtain convictions involving animated or virtual depictions of minors in sexually explicit conduct—most notably the conviction of and the plea by —while courts hav...