United States First Circuit

Convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 2252(a)(2) and (4), are affirmed over meritless claims that the statutes under which defendant was charged were unconstitutionally vague, that: 1) the district court should have dismissed one count of the indictment for lack of evidence submitted to the grand jury; 2) the court abused its discretion in barring the testimony of defendant's proposed expert witness and in instructing the jury; and 3) the court wrongly denied his motion for judgment of acquittal under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2015
• Published 07/20/2015

Judges

• BARRON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel