Legal Opinion

State v. Wible

Court of Appeals of Washington

Decided August 9, 2002No. 27164-8-IIPublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBridgewater, J.

— Alvin Chester Wible III appeals his conviction for five counts of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct with sexual motivation. We affirm.

In September 1999, Wible took his laptop computer to the Tacoma CompUSA for repair. Weeks later, while repairing the computer, William Yarwood, a CompUSA employee, noticed some of Wible’s computer files named “11yr.01, 11yr.02, 11yr.03.” Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 22. Yarwood viewed some of these files and saw what he believed to be child pornography. He also saw a folder named “young teens” and two video files named “8 year…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. State v. JacksonWashington Supreme Court · 1984
  4. State v. RileyWashington Supreme Court · 1993
  5. United States v. John Spilotro Herbert Blitzstein and Joseph C. BlaskoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986

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3Cited by11 opinions

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  3. State v. EttenhoferCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2003
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  5. State v. BusigCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2003

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