United States Ninth Circuit

Convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography are affirmed primarily as: 1) the district court acted within its discretion in allowing the jury to briefly view a carefully limited number of images that were the subjects of the charged offenses; and 2) denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained by a federal agent using peer-to-peer software was proper as defendant lacked an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the files.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/14/2008
• Decided 08/15/2008
• Published 08/15/2008

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BARRY G. SILVERMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Karen L. Landau, Oakland, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Thomas P. O'Brien, Christine C. Ewell, and Mark C. Krause, United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.