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Abstract: 

This issue reviews two legal proceedings. In the first, Munson v. Gaetz, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4960 (Mar. 9, 2012), James Munson, an Illinois state inmate who suffers from health problems that require him to take medication, was denied access to publications that detailed the medications that he took, as well as dosage information, etc. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision. In the second case involves an appeal for the ruling on U.S. v. Accardi, 669 F.3d 340 (Feb. 28, 2012). Marc Accardi, who pled guilty to charges of possession and distribution of child pornography and faced 40 years of supervised release after his sentence, argued that his sentence was improper because the charges of possession and distribution of child pornography were not offenses “perpetrated against a minor.” The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, however, vehemently disputed Accardi’s characterization of his crimes.

Keywords: medication; child pornography

Affiliations:  1: Pace University School of Law Library.