He’ll have a hard time using the Weiner defense.
A man convicted of downloading child pornography in Washington State is citing Anthony Weiner in a desperate attempt to receive a lighter jail sentence.
A lawyer for Douglas Blouin, 51, wrote a letter to the judge in Seattle imploring him to take Anthony Weiner’s sexting case into consideration when handing down a prison sentence to his client, according to KOMO News.
“Congressman Anthony Weiner was recently sentenced to 21 months in custody after he convinced a 15-year-old to produce child pornography,” the lawyer wrote.
Weiner pleaded with the judge to be spared jail time. But the disgraced politician was handed the nearly two-year sentence for exchanging explicit images with the teen.
Blouin, however, has a bigger hurdle to overcome.
In addition to being caught sharing child porn on a peer-to-peer network, Blouin was also convicted of child molestation in 1997. He served seven years in jail for that crime.
Prosecutors want Blouin to be given the maximum sentence of 13 years for the child porn conviction.