Joseph Nichols Punishment

The following information is based on a report from the United States Department of Justice Middle Tennessee District. According to the report released on January 13, 2016, two men from the Middle Tennessee towns of Nashville and Summertown were convicted and sentenced to significant amounts of time in prison. They both were found guilty of crimes involving child pornography (U.S. Attorney's Office Middle District of Tennessee, 2016). The first of the two felons, Joseph Nichols, was from Nashville, TN. On January 11, 2016, the judge in his case sentenced him to 18 years in prison along with lifetime supervision upon his release. Nichols conviction was based, in part, on his guilty plea of distribution of child pornography. Although his punishment may seem extreme at first, keep in mind that Nichols was on parole, at the time of the second arrest, for a previous case in which he was found guilty of possession of child pornography. As a stipulation of his parole, he was banned from internet use except through written permission from his parole officer, a ban which he openly confessed to violating almost immediately following his conviction. Through his use of the internet, he quickly amassed a large volume of

His conviction on May 28, 2015, was based on his conspiracy to possess child pornography. LaDeau’s conviction was based on an investigation that started back in 2010 while he was in detention in Rhode Island. Once the investigation began, it was determined that LeDeau was conspiring with David LeDeau, his younger brother, to obtain pornographic material from the internet which involved young boys. During Daniel LeDeau’s trial, it became evident that he had been accumulating child pornography for more than twenty years (U.S. Attorney's Office Middle District of Tennessee,