Morton Robert Berger (born July 2, 1951) is a former high school teacher from Phoenix, Arizona and a convicted child pornography collector. He was convicted in 2003 for possessing 20 pornographic images of children and sentenced to 200 years in prison without possibility of probation, parole, pardon or clemency. This sentence, which was the minimum available under Arizona law, was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court in 2006. On February 26, 2007, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a further appeal. The crime Berger was a history teacher at Cortez High School in Phoenix. In June 2002, police got a tip that his credit card number had been used to buy pornographic images from a site hosted in Dallas. A raid on his home revealed a large collection of child pornography that he had collected over the previous six years. He was a member of the Wonderland Club porn-trading ring that required members to have at least 10,000 images in order to join. He was charged with 35 specimen counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, each charge relating to one image. After Berger turned down a plea bargain, prosecutors dropped 15 of the charges to avoid overwhelming the jury with lewd images. In January 2003, a jury convicted Berger of the remaining 20 counts against him. The sentence Berger was convicted of second-degree dangerous crime against children, which carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. Arizona has some of the strictest laws in the nation on child abuse and exploitation. Only five states have a longer minimum sentence for possession of child pornography. Arizona's 10-year minimum is longer than the maximum for this offense (or its equivalent) in 35 states, and equal to the maximum in nine states. Under federal sentencing guidelines of the day, he would have faced a minimum of only five years in prison. The sentencing judge agreed with prosecutors that since the possession of each image was a separate crime, the sentences had to run consecutively. She thus sentenced Berger to the mandatory minimum sentence of 200 years in prison—10 years per count. Prosecutors recommended a sentence of 340 years (17 years per count), while the maximum sentence available was 480 years (24 years per count). Under Arizona law, his sentence was to be served without possibility of probation, parole, pardon or clemency. Thus, all three sentences would have