United States v. Stewart

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

Defendant Theodore Cooper Stewart stands charged by a grand jury with transportation of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(1). He moves to suppress the evidence of that crime, which was discovered when his two computers were seized at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport port of entry in Romulus, Michigan as he reentered the United States when returning from Asia. Stewart argues that although the initial inspection by U.S. Customs officials at the border entry was valid, the seizure of his…