State of West Virginia v. Daniel Beck

WALKER, Chief Justice:

*823In this case we consider a certified question concerning West Virginia Code § 61-8C-3 (2014) and child pornography found in the cache files of a defendant's laptop computer. Respondent Daniel Beck (Beck) is charged with one count of violating § 61-8C-3. By order entered October 19, 2018, the circuit court certified the following question to this Court:

Is possession of a laptop computer containing cache files that relate to material visually portraying a minor and/or minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, without evidence of when or where said cache files were…