United States v. King

OPINION OF THE COURT

HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.

Richard King appeals his judgment of sentence following a conditional guilty plea to violating 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (Interstate Transportation to Engage in Sex with a Minor). The principal question of precedential import is whether the rule of law established in Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103, 122-23, 126 S.Ct. 1515, 164 L.Ed.2d 208 (2006), viz., that a present and objecting resident can override another resident’s consent to search a home, applies to the seizure of a computer. We hold that it does not.

I

In August 2003, King was using the screen…