United States v. Andrew Modjewski

Andrew Modjewski presented the testimony of a psychiatric expert during his sentencing hearing in hopes that it would reduce his sentence for possession and delivery of an extremely large amount of child pornography. At the sentencing hearing, after the defense conducted its direct examination and the government cross-examined the expert, the district court judge engaged in lengthy and direct questioning of the expert, much of it regarding whether Modjewski could be classified as having a pedophilic identification. Though the expert said Modjewski could not, the judge came to her own contrary…