Legal Opinion
United States v. Bruce Niggemann
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 2018No. 17-1145PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sykes, Circuit Judge.
In the summer of 2014, investigators in the Kane County Sheriffs Office discovered that an IP address was using specialized peer-to-peer software to share child pornography over the internet. They gave this information to special agents in the Department of Homeland Security, who in turn identified Bruce Niggemann as the owner of the IP address. The agents obtained and executed a search warrant at Niggemann’s home in West Dundee, Illinois, seizing a laptop and a desktop computer. Both contained child pornography.
A grand jury indicted Niggemann for receipt and possession…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Osborne v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- United States v. Philip M. SeboltCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2006
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