United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for distribution of child pornography reversed, where evidence did not show dissemination or transportation; searches conducted pursuant to warrants provided an independent source of evidence obtained in the illegal pre-warrant searches of computer disks. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2002
• Published 05/22/2002

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Chad Eugene Meacham (argued), Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., J.W. Johnson, Johnson Law Office, San Angelo, TX, Jack B. Zimmermann (argued), Terri Raye Zimmermann Jacobs, Zimmermann & Lavine, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.