The guy's attorney was giving Brad Schimmel thousands of dollars of campaign contributions at the same time that Brad Schimmel said, I'll cut a deal with you. You get your guy to plead to one count. Each of those files, each of those images counts as a count of child pornography. You plead to one count and let the rest of it go. And, you know, I guess that the campaign contributions did the trick in that case. Seems that way. (07:20–07:27)
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Asserts that each file/image is considered a separate count of child pornography.
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