People v. Flick; People v. Lazarus

In these consolidated cases, we consider the scope of the Michigan Penal Code provision that criminalizes the “knowing possession” of child sexually abusive material, MCL 750.145c(4). Defendants intentionally accessed and purposely viewed depictions of child sexually abusive material on the Internet. The *4only child sexually abusive material later found on their computers, however, had been automatically stored in temporary Internet files.1

Defendants contend that because the prosecution failed to establish that they knowingly possessed child sexually abusive material, the district courts erred…