United States v. Herndon

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Jeffrey Scott Hern-don was convicted in Tennessee state court of multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and, after serving a brief term of imprisonment, placed on probation subject to certain terms and conditions, including a series of Sex Offender Directives issued by the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole. During the course of an inspection of Herndon’s home computer to check Hern-don’s compliance with the Directives’ prohibition on home Internet access, Hern-don’s probation officer discovered child pornography on…