Legal Opinion

United States v. Loren Samuel Williamson

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided March 13, 2006No. 05-30150PublishedCited by 76 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

We consider whether federal agents' and local police legally seized a home computer and related equipment used in the international transmission of child pornography.

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In June, 2000, police in the European country of Croatia discovered 19 child pornographic photographs that had been posted to an internet site and, using publicly available information, traced the source of the pictures to a computer in Roseburg, Oregon, and thereafter notified-the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). Further investigation led FBI agents to suspect that the pictures originated from…

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