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Crooks & Liars reports that Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) is currently looking for paid summer interns.  Craig has asked a Minnesota appeals court to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea arising from a public restroom sex sting.  The ACLU has filed an amicus brief in support of Craig claiming that sex in a public restroom is constitutionally protected.

LawFuel reports that US Marshals are hard at work investigating Adam Walsh Act violations.  The Act authorizes the United States Marshals Service to create an active information sharing network to track down sex offenders who cross state lines and who knowingly fail to register and comply with state or federal registration laws.

The Boston Herald has an editorial discussing the difficulty legislators have in dealing with sex offender issues.  The editorial supports "lifetime supervision of repeat sex offenders," but stops short of supporting "mandatory minimum sentences for sex offenders convicted of certain crimes."

FourthAmendment.com mentions a new ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (United States v. Wallace, 2008 CAAF LEXIS 226), where a defendant revoked his consent to the search and seizure of his computer and merely acquiesced in officers taking his computer anyway.  The appellate court found that the trial judge did not err in denying the motion to suppress because the child porn on his computer would have been inevitably found by a search warrant.

Massachusetts legislators are considering a bill that would make sexual intercourse between teachers and students under 18 a criminal offense, regardless of consent.  Sex between adults and anyone under the age of 16 is already covered by statutory rape laws, but there is no criminal prohibition on teachers engaging in consensual sexual relations with students 16 or over.

How Appealing notes that the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled state prosecutors cannot obtain a sentence of life in prison without parole against someone who rapes a child unless they are seeking the death penalty.  You can read more here.