United States v. Walter E. Sewell

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

The government appeals from the district court’s interlocutory ruling that prohibits the government from publishing to the jury images of alleged child pornography found on Walter E. Sewell’s computers in its case against him for possessing, distributing, and publishing notices of child pornography. We reverse and remand.

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Sewell loaded a peer-to-peer file-sharing program called Kazaa onto both his home and work computers. Kazaa allows its users to utilize the Internet to search for specific terms in the file names and descriptive fields of files located in any other…