DETROIT (AP) — A federal appeals court says a lawyer for a Michigan school official caught with child pornography at the New York-Canada border shouldn't have to pay a $2,000 penalty in the case.
A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a ruling Tuesday reversing the sanction against attorney John Freeman.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman in 2010 said Freeman made an "unwarranted and baseless" request for the mother to speak at sentencing and broke a local court rule.
Craig Aleo of Davisburg was an assistant superintendent at Walled Lake schools in Oakland County when he was caught in 2009 with child porn. He made a video with a 4-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 60 years.
The appeals court on Tuesday also ordered that Aleo be resentenced,
