BUT JUDGE, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, AND I WILL TELL YOU I AM QUESTIONING YOUR DISCRETION AND JUDGMENT. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING. I'M NOT QUESTIONING YOU AS A PERSON, I'M NOT QUESTIONING YOUR EXCELLENCE AS A JUDGE, BUT YOU SAID YOU HAD DISCRETION AND THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING. I'M QUESTIONING HOW YOU USED YOUR DISCRETION IN THESE CASES. TO ME, TO TAKE A GUY WHO'S 18 YEARS OLD, WHO HAS WITH THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IS AN EXTREMELY LARGE COLLECTION OF PREPUBESCENT PORNOGRAPHY, EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS, 10-YEAR-OLDS, 11-YEAR-OLDS, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GOBS OF HOURS OF TIME THAT HE HAS, AND YOU SAY TO HIM, WHAT, YOU SAY, WELL, IT WAS JUST A COLLECTION. HE WAS JUST VIEWING IT, AND ESSENTIALLY, THEY WERE HIS PEERS. YOU SAY TO HIM THAT HE IS NOT A PEDOPHILE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU KNOW THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT'S RELEVANT TO THE GUIDELINES. MAYBE IT IS. YOU SAY HE'S NOT A PEDOPHILE. YOU SAY YOU ARE VERY SORRY FOR HIM AND WHAT HE SUFFERED, THEN YOU GIVE HIM THREE MONTHS WHEN, FRANKLY, A LIBERAL PROSECUTOR IS ASKING FOR TWO FULL YEARS. IT DOES SEEM LIKE AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. IT WOULD BOTHER ME NO MATTER WHAT. IT BOTHERS ME WHEN AND EVERY CHILD POOR CASE YOU'VE HAD YOU'VE SENTENCE BELOW THE GUIDELINES AND BELOW THE GOVERNMENT'S RECOMMENDATION. SAYING THAT SEX OFFENDERS ARE TRULY SHUNNED IN OUR SOCIETY, AS YOU SAID TO HIM, IT ECHOES WHAT YOU SAID AS EARLY AS LAW SCHOOL AND THAT HARVARD LAW REVIEW ARTICLE SENATOR BLUMENTHAL WAS TALKING ABOUT. THERE YOU SAY, AND I'M QUOTING YOU. IN THE CURRENT CLIMATE OF FEAR, HATRED AND REVENGE, ASSOCIATED WITH THE RELEASE OF CONVICTED SEX CRIMINALS, COURTS MUST BE ESPECIALLY ATTENTIVE TO LEGISLATIVE ENACT VENTS REGARDING THESE SEX CRIMINALS. I GUESS LIKE THIS ENACTMENT HERE, THE PROTECT ACT THAT CONGRESS ENACTED. I WANT TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND, IS IT YOUR VIEW THAT SOCIETY IS TOO HARD ON SEX OFFENDERS? YOU SAY THEY TRULY ARE SHUNNED IN SOCIETY. YOU WROTE THAT MANY OF THESE LAWS ARE PRODUCT OF A CLIMATE OF FEAR, HATRED AND REVENGE. SO IS THAT STILL YOUR VIEW? DO YOU THINK THAT THESE LAWS ARE TOO TOUGH, THAT WE ARE TOO TOUGH ON SEX OFFENDERS? EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEANT IN THIS CASE, IN 2013, AND IT SEEMS TO BE THE SAME THING YOU SAID MANY YEARS AGO. JUDGE JACKSON: