1. 1 The "official title" of the Feeney Amendment is Section 401 of the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act. Though most judicial opinions and some commentary refer to this law as the PROTECT Act, I will use the Feeney Amendment label in this commentary.
2. 2 The website of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers includes a webpage which lists more than three dozen major new articles or editorials about the Feeney Amendment. See http://www.nacdl.org/departures (last visited Jan. 30, 2004).
3. 3 For a thorough review and analysis of the originally proposed Feeney Amendment and of the version of the Amendment that ultimately became law, see
4. Alan Vinegrad, The New Federal Sentencing Law, 15 FED. SENT. REP. 310 (2003).
5. 4 270 F. Supp. 2d 1318 (D. Utah2003).