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Originally posted by $5 submissions
Yes.
Possible options:
Maybe get on the sympathetic/humane side of the deputy DA and, if the defendant does not have any priors, convince him to push only minor misdemeanor charges and plea to THOSE.
Believe it or not, most cases don't go to juries...they are plead out.
or ...work the jury.
Of course, the process would still have to go through a jury. All the defense lawyers need to do is find ONE sympathetic person in the bunch to get a hung jury. Usually, equitable considerations come into play once a DA gets a hung jury. Given the bizarre situation here and the sympathetic story the defense can work on: ie., a young boy who got traumatized is trying to resolve
his issues by confronting his fears which the photos symbolize (blah Robert Shapiro voice blah blah blah). This probably won't get retried.
A former roommate of mine when I was living in Northern California is a deputy District Attorney now so I had quite a bit of exposure to how the justice system ACTUALLY works. 
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umm if the pictures where of him and where not considered explicit then it woudnt even go to trial they woudnt charge him with anything.
Now if they where explicit then yes he would be charged as he would be with any other picture.
If you can go to jkail for having naked pictures of you as a child that 90% of all familys have then why the hell isnt there more cases like this ????