United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction of defendant for advertising, transporting, and possessing child pornography is affirmed where: 1) the district court was within its discretion to find that the prospective juror's prior experience of a kidnapping attempt on her daughter would not impede her ability to decide the case fairly; and 2) even if it was an error for the district court to admit potions of a chat log where the defendant claimed to have molested minors, the error was harmless because the government presented plenty of other evidence cumulative of the proper purposes for which they otherwise may have been admitted.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2010
• Decided 05/25/2010
• Published 05/25/2010

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William B. Allen, Beaumont, TX, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Yasmin Best, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Patrick W. Blegen, Attorney, Blegen & Garvey, Thomas M. Breen, Attorney, Breen & Associates, Harold M. Garfinkel, Attorney, Law Offices of Hal Garfinkel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.