Legal Opinion

United States v. Christopher B. Carroll

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided February 3, 1997No. 96-1709PublishedCited by 88 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this case a jury convicted defendant-appellant Christopher B. Carroll of violating a federal child pornography statute. Following the imposition of sentence,- Carroll appeals. The key question involves an elusive comma. Having found the comma, we affirm.

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Background

In the summer of 1995, the appellant separated from his wife, Tammy.. While sorting out her husband’s personal effects, Tammy discovered two rolls of undeveloped film. The film contained 46 photographs of the appellant’s adolescent niece, Brittany. 1 Many of these photographs depicted Brittany in various…

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