Legal Opinion
United States v. Neil Kienast
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 23, 2018No. 17-1840; 17-1989; 17-2439PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, Circuit Judge.
In 2015, federal agents infiltrated a child pornography website called Playpen and deployed a computer program to identify Playpen's users. This operation resulted in the successful prosecution of defendants all around the country, including Neil Kienast, Marcus Owens, and Braman Broy, whose appeals are consolidated before us. Kienast, Owens, and Broy, like many other defendants caught in this sting, argue that the warrant authorizing the Playpen searches was invalid and that the fruit of those searches-the defendants' identities-should therefore have been suppressed.…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Herring v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
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