Legal Opinion
United States v. Burgard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 2, 2012No. 11-1863PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Expecting to find evidence of child pornography, police officers seized Joshua Burgard’s cell phone without a warrant. At that point, however, they seemed to have lost their sense of urgency: they did nothing with the phone right away and allowed six days to elapse before they applied for a search warrant. Once they had the warrant in hand, they searched the phone and, as anticipated, they found sexually explicit images of underage girls. Burgard pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2), and was sentenced to 210…
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