United States v. Upham

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

In February 1997, U.S. Customs agents who were monitoring a “chat room” on the Internet, while engaged in an undercover investigation, received in Buffalo, New York a number of images depicting child pornography. Records of the Internet service provider showed that the computer from which the images had been sent was owned by Kathi Morrissey at an address in Costigan, Maine. Acting pursuant to a warrant, the agents conducted a search of Morrissey’s home on March 21,1997.

Among the items seized and taken from the house were Morrissey’s computer and a number of diskettes.…