Kiddie Porn Case Wrecks Newport Beach Lawyer's Career, Sends Him to Prison

Also, he is very much interested in adults. There is so much gray area when it comes to sexuality, that I don't feel a statistic could accurately apply to any certain individual. He made a mistake. It's not excusable, but I would really suggest that the writer of this article as well as any interested parties do some research on the disease of alcoholism before demonizing a complete stranger. Carlton was deep into his sickness when these events occurred. I can tell you with absolute certainty that as a man who is now 6 months sober, he is a lovely human being who wouldn't hurt a fly. The work we do in Recovery makes us entirely different people than who we are when inundated in untreated disease. Again, I don't feel the need to make excuses for people's behavior. However, as I was privileged enough to call this man a friend, I do feel obligated to clear his name.

This article is about one of my closest friends. We are both sober in Alcoholics Anonymous. He is not 100% sure about his sexuality. Although it may not seem like it, he is a wonderful, wonderful person and I am going to miss him dearly. He did not hurt anyone.

The more you know: The punishment for possession of CP is greater than the punishment for actually molesting a child.

This is strange because people who are sexually attracted to  pre pubescent children are almost 100% not attracted to adults. Typically they go for the straight fake marriage  to  hide in or grow their own victims.  Pedophile and Gay is rare!

An example of why DA Rackauckas should never prosecute federal child porn possession charges or any serious crimes committed against a child... check out the DA's description at http://www.orangecountyda.com/home/index.asp?page=391, page 32, for an accused Shorecliffs Middle School teacher Richard Rack, with a pretrial conference schedule for today, 9/14/12. Instead of describing the 5 felony and 2 misdemeanor counts involving sex crimes allegedly committed against a minor child, Rack's name is never referenced in the DA's description and a murder crime is referenced.... both murder and sex crimes of any type are serious but is the public served when this type of incompetence confuses the public????? Was Richard Rack wrongfully charged and this is the way the DA paves a way for Rack to collect some type of insurance payout? Or will Rack be mistakenly labeled a child predator in the OC jail and murder is planned soon therafter. Just love the safe Orange County, California.... the only people that can survive are corrupt attorneys and a DA that needs a public integrity review board.

Thanks again to the OC Weekly's tenacity as it relates to informing the public in the interests of justice and protections of children. This conviction falls into the same pattern as the porn crimes committed by David Andrew Lewis and William Franklin Blackhall. The public still does not know why Lewis is now facing a federal court proceeding after serving an alleged prison sentence for child porn possession, yet, Blackhall had 1000 child porn photos and DA Rackauckas only charged him with ONE COUNT--this smells! Obviously the USDOJ and FBI are competent and accountable for investigating and prosecuting child pornography crimes. Carlton N. Morse, who was practicing with a prominent law firm, Irell & Manella, based on public records at the California State Bar website, www.calbar.ca.gov had at least 5 years as a licensed attorney but his career is now over, unless of course, someone comes to his rescue. My only question is WHY THE SECRECY up until now? Kent and Jill Easter, attorneys formerly employed by prominent law firms, Stradling Yocca and now Carlton Morse from Irell & Manella.... attorneys that took an oath to act as officers of the court. Something is very wrong when politically connected attorneys can hide serious child exploitation crimes from public disclosure. Granted, one is always innocent until convicted.... but that has never stopped DA Rackauckas and his motor mouth Chief of Staff SKS from public grandstanding via public defamation of those accused of crimes awaiting a fair and unobstructed trial in a court of law. They provide drama to anyone who will listen when an arrest is made but many times as the evidence reveals itself, a serious crime against a child case disappears from the DA's Cases in the News list at www.orangecountyda.com, and accused individuals are left in the Orange County jail getting three meals a day, rent free -- thanks to California taxpayers. DA Rackauckas now wants to institute some type of public integrity review board.... sounds like an insurance company is concerned about future payouts. If the prosecuting government agency in one of the most affluent counties in the US needs a check on public integrity, every child, adult and employee in Orange County, California is at risk.