United States v. Michael Gardner

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Michael Gardner shared a cell phone with his seventeen-year-old girlfriend, B.H., to facilitate her "sex dates" with other men. When one of B.H.'s clients turned out to be an undercover officer, she agreed to let police search the phone. A jury convicted Gardner of trafficking a minor for sex and producing child pornography, primarily based on evidence recovered from the phone. On appeal, Gardner urges us to vacate his convictions on the ground that the district court erroneously admitted the phone evidence during the trial, among other alleged errors. We decline the…