Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael Laursen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2017No. 14-30244PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Concurrence by Judge HAWKINS
OPINION
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal we address whether taking consensual nude “selfies”1 involving a forty-five-year-old man and a sixteen-year-old girl is sufficient to support a conviction for production and possession of child pornography. We conclude that this evidence was sufficient to support the con*1029viction, and we specifically reject the argument made by defendant Michael Thor-val Laursen (Laursen) that the legality of his sexual relationship with a sixteen-year-old under Washington state law precluded prosecution under federal law.
I. BACKGROUND
A.…
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