State v. Muhlenbruch

APPEL, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide if Iowa Code section 728.12(3) (2003) creates a single criminal offense for possession of a computer that contains pornographic depictions of minors, regardless of the number of images, or whether the statute establishes a separate offense for each pornographic image stored in or accessible on a single computer. We join the appellate courts in Kansas and Arizona in holding that, under a statute that prohibits possession of a computer or other medium that depicts pornographic images, only one offense arises from possession of one computer or…