Resigned To His Fate

A former prosecutor who is serving a prison sentence for child pornography and flight offenses had his resignation accepted by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

The Portland Press Herald reported on the criminal case

Cameron spent a year behind bars after being convicted in 2010 of 13 counts of child pornography before he was released on bail during part of his appeal to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

He fled Maine in November 2012 and was arrested on a warrant Dec. 2, 2012, in New Mexico following a nationwide manhunt that lasted about two weeks.

He has been held since then, apparently at one point in a New Hampshire facility. There Beneman says in the sentencing memo, “Jim was attacked and suffered a broken shoulder. … As a former drug prosecutor he is at higher risk of physical assault while incarcerated.”

…Cameron spent 18 years as an assistant attorney general. He became the target of an investigation after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that Yahoo! found multiple images of child pornography in an account belonging to Cameron’s wife.

Cameron was fired from his state job in April 2008 and indicted on the child pornography charges Feb. 11, 2009. He was convicted by Woodcock following a nonjury trial in federal court in Portland in August 2010.

The resignation affidavit was “impounded” and will be made public only if he seeks reinstatement.

He was disbarred in Michigan. (Mike Frisch)