Supreme Court of Illinois

In an action for possession of child pornography, conviction is affirmed over claims that the State had not done enough to prove that the pictures in question were of real children where: 1) a trier of fact is capable of determining whether real children were used in pornographic images simply by viewing the images; and 2) any trier of fact could conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that actual children were depicted in this particular case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2005
• Published 06/03/2005

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, Mark G. Levine, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Elgin, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Doug Floski, State's Attorney, Oregon (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin, Jonathan J. Silbermann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.