Dennis Bernard Pollard, assistant dean of the College of Law was arrested at his home on March 24, 1998, for purchasing a child-pornography videotape on the Internet from government officials. In Pollard’s 2001 trial, Assistant District Attorney Nancy Harr also indicated that US Customs agents found “child erotica” and adult pornography in his home. He resigned from the university immediately after his initial arrest. He pled guilty in 2000 and was sentenced in 2001 to five years of probation, with the first year to be served in a halfway house. He also was ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and to attend a sex offender treatment program, as well as to be listed on the sex offender list.