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Calista241

(5,584 posts)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:59 PM Jul 2020

Georgia man sentenced to 1,000 years for child porn gets parole

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A former Troup County commissioner once called a prolific collector of child pornography will have a chance to spend the rest of his 1,000-year prison sentence on parole.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles released Peter Mallory on parole May 27, three weeks after an appeals court found the sentence for Mallory’s 2012 conviction was appropriate. District Attorney Herb Cranford said he opposed the decision “but was powerless to stop it.”

Cranford on Tuesday released a statement explaining his opposition after he said several members of the Troup County community expressed concern over Mallory’s release. Mallory, 72, a former owner of LaGrange television station WCAG-TV, was convicted of 60 counts of sexual exploitation of children, three counts of invasion of privacy and one count of tampering with evidence in December 2012 after a three-week trial.

Read more: https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/georgia-man-sentenced-000-years-for-child-porn-gets-parole/Uie7PYeixE4bTkt9nCZJvM/

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Georgia man sentenced to 1,000 years for child porn gets parole (Original Post) Calista241 Jul 2020 OP
When will Trump appoint him to his Cabinet? LudwigPastorius Jul 2020 #1
Naw. He'll just settle for Governor of Georgia COLGATE4 Jul 2020 #6
Law and Order republicans. SergeStorms Jul 2020 #2
Future Trump Administration texasfiddler Jul 2020 #3
Who had the final authority? The State Board or the governor? keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #4
1000 years? Have to imagine he was more actively involved in the process than just 'collecting' mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #5

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
4. Who had the final authority? The State Board or the governor?
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 11:08 PM
Jul 2020

Who had the final authority? The State Board or the governor?

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. 1000 years? Have to imagine he was more actively involved in the process than just 'collecting'
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 04:14 AM
Jul 2020

Cause if the extent of what he did was 'possess pictures', 1000 years seems ... questionable.

Wonder what the logic was behind the appeals board decision?

One certainly hopes he's going to be extremely limited in his activities while on parole, including an anklet and very strict rules about using the internet, and being around children.

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