Yesterday, manga expert Matt Thorn had a long post on his blog reprinting a series of correspondence he’d had with Christopher Handley’s lawyer and mother. Thorn was asked to be an expert witness, but it never got beyond the talking stage. Handley’s mother posted some comments that make this entire case even more disturbing, accusing her son’s lawyers of not properly explaining what he was pleading guilty to, and in general painting her son as a harmless, hapless victim of a series of events. (OF course, she IS his mom…) She also mentioned that Handley is a diabetic who “isn’t made for prison life”…and one assumes the kind of prison life someone convicted of ordering child porn gets is a little worse than other kinds of prison life.

The correspondence has been removed today, because of a gag order on the case, Thorn reports. There were plenty of excerpts around the web, however, including ICv2.

BTW, file this under speculation, but many people are wondering why Handley’s mail was opened by the Post Office, and why it was flagged. We’re not entirely clear on this, but if the package came from Japan, it would have to go through Customs. and it’s normal for packages to be randomly (or not so randomly) flagged and inspected by Customs, so this could be why it was opened.

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