Legal Opinion
United States v. Christopher Eads
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 2013No. 12-2466PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
At the age of twenty-six, Christopher Eads was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography and tamper ing with a potential witness. The district court cautioned him about the perils of self-representation in a criminal trial, but he chose to represent himself anyway. Eads stipulated that the images charged in the indictment constituted child pornography, but he claimed that he was being framed and that the images belonged to someone else. So over Eads’s objection, the district court allowed the government to introduce several photographs and short…
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