LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THIS LAST POINT BECAUSE YOU SAID IT A COUPLE OF TIMES. THE SENTENCES THAT CONGRESS REQUIRES. CONGRESS WANTED THE GUIDELINES TO BE MANDATORY. CONGRESS WROTE THE GUIDELINES. THEY WANTED THEM TO BE MANDATORY. THEY GAVE THE COURTS FACTORS TO CONSIDER TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE SENTENCING RANGE. CONGRESS WANT YOU TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 97 AT 121 MONTHS. THAT'S WHAT CONGRESS WANTED. THE SUPREME COURT IN BOOKER SAID THAT THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES WOULD BE DISCRETIONARY, THE STASH SO THE SUPREME COURT GAVE A DISCRETION. IF WE TALK ABOUT WHAT CONGRESS WANTED, CONGRESS WANTED THEM TO BE MANDATORY. MY ONLY POINT IN RAISING THAT IS THAT YOU HAD DISCRETION IN THESE CASES AND USE DISCRETION TO CHOOSE SENTENCES THAT YOU DID. LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS YOU SAID. YOU SAID IT THIS MORNING AND I APPRECIATED YOU WANTED TO GET THE DEFENDANTS TO OWN UP TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. I THOUGHT THAT WAS POWERFUL AND I THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT. BUT LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID TO THIS DEFENDANT. YOU SAID TO THIS DEFENDANT, TO WHOM YOU SENTENCED ONLY THREE MONTHS IN PRISON, THAT YOUR COLLECTION -- I'M QUOTING YOU, "YOUR COLLECTION AT THE TIME YOU ARE CAUGHT IS NOT AS LARGE AS IT SEEMS. THE GOVERNME -- SEEMS." THE GOVERNMENT RESPONDED AND SAID THE NUMBER OF IMAGES CAN BE APPROPRIATE AND THAT THE DEFENDANT HAS AMASSED AN EXTREMELY LARGE COLLECTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. BUT YOU DISREGARDED THAT. YOU ALSO TOLD THE DEFENDANT, THIS SEEMS TO BE A CASE WHERE YOU ARE FASCINATED BY SEXUAL IMAGES INVOLVING WHAT WERE ESSENTIALLY YOUR PEERS. THEN YOU WENT ON TO SAY, THE DEFENDANT WAS TRYING TO SATISFY HIS CURIOSITY. CURIOSITY IS YOUR WORD. ONE MORE THING ON THIS, SAME IDEA, YOU SAID THIS IS YOU TO THE DEFENDANT, YOU WERE VIEWING SEX ACTS OF CHILDREN WHO WERE NOT MUCH YOUNGER THAN YOU, AND THE WHOLE DISCUSSION IS ABOUT WHY YOU ARE ONLY GIVING HIM THREE MONTHS. JUDGE, HE WAS 18. THESE KIDS ARE A. I DON'T SEE AND WHAT SENSE THEY ARE PEERS. I HAVE A NINE-YEAR-OLD, SEVEN-YEAR-OLD AND A 16 MONTH OLD AT HOME AND I LIVE IN FEAR THAT THEY WILL BE EXPOSED TO, LET ALONE, EXPLOITED IN THIS KIND OF MATERIAL. I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU SAYING TO HIM THAT THEY ARE PEERS, AND THAT THEREFORE, YOU WERE VIEWING SEX ACTS BETWEEN CHILDREN WERE NOT MUCH YOUNGER THAN YOU, AND THAT THAT IS SOMEHOW A REASON TO ONLY GIVE HIM THREE MONTHS. HELP ME UNDERSTAND THIS. JUDGE JACKSON: