Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

United States v. Banks

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided February 25, 2009No. 07-30130Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in part

ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge,

concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I concur in the majority’s conclusion that the district court did not err in deny*981ing Banks’s motion to suppress the evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant, and in defining and applying the terms “masturbation” and “lascivious.” I respectfully dissent from the majority’s holding that the district court abused its discretion in admitting the testimony of Banks’s spouse that he told her he produced a video for distribution on the internet to other pedophiles that depicts him masturbating their two-year-old grandchild. I would…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Elkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  2. Patton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  3. Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Tarasoff v. Regents of University of CaliforniaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
  5. Jaffee v. RedmondSupreme Court of the United States · 1996

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